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Broken lifts and stairs for commuters with wheelchairs

Long wait before Cape Town’s train stations will provide access for people with disabilities

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News | 21 September 2017

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Promised RDP houses after six months: Nine years later they still waiting

“This is not a place I want my grandchildren to grow up in. I do not want to die here.”

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News | 21 September 2017

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“Our grass is only cut when they host ANC rallies”

Pietermaritzburg township residents call for street lights, better roads, housing and clean toilets

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News | 21 September 2017

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Fishing quotas killed Waylon, say Hawston residents

25-year-old drowned trying to learn to dive for abalone

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Feature | 20 September 2017

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Good relations upset between Jewish and Bo-Kaap schools

Herzlia High took issue with anti-Zionist posters at Vista High School

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News | 20 September 2017

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Ekapa Minerals abandons part of its case against Zama Zama miners

Interdict found to be flawed

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Law | 20 September 2017

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R2K demands cheaper airtime and data

Picket outside cellphone companies’ offices

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Brief | 19 September 2017

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Ona Dubula returns home

Hangberg residents arrange transport: “It’s the least we could do”

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News | 19 September 2017

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Chokka fishers struggle to survive in lean times

Separated for long periods from their families, the fishers eke out a meagre living catching squid

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Photo Essay | 19 September 2017

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Protests flare up again in Matatiele

Roads closed; 13 protesters arrested

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Brief | 19 September 2017

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Cape Town taxi drivers’ strike marred by violence

Strike called off after MEC intervenes

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News | 18 September 2017

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Protest at Soweto school engulfed in race tensions

Exams disrupted as parents prevent teachers from entering school

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News | 18 September 2017

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What is a fair price for expropriated land?

Supreme Court of Appeal has to decide hotly contested issue

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Law | 18 September 2017

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Debate on key fishing bill stalled in Parliament

No responses yet to angry fishing communities

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News | 18 September 2017

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Hundreds protest against arrest of murder suspects in Philippi

Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who were demanding release of community patrol members

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News | 18 September 2017

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Do immigrants “steal” jobs in South Africa? What the data tell us

Overall, immigration probably creates employment

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Analysis | 18 September 2017

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