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Tokyo Sexwale’s report frustrates Palestinian hopes

FIFA allowed off the hook by struggle veteran’s failure to take legally correct and just stand on Israeli occupation

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Law | 10 November 2017

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IPID fails shack dweller after police shooting

Case of attempted murder opened three years after Patrick Sobutyu was shot

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News | 10 November 2017

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Congolese picket US Consulate in Cape Town

Protesters want the US to take a tough stance against President Kabila

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Brief | 10 November 2017

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More questions than answers over delayed foreshore project

City official cites confidentiality when grilled by councillors

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News | 10 November 2017

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“I’m 83 years old and I will die homeless”

Elderly residents of Pietermaritzburg are renting RDP houses they had hoped to own

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News | 10 November 2017

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Government is 11 years past deadline to end bucket system

About 17,000 toilets, each costing R15,000, built in Free State and none in use

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Parliament | 9 November 2017

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Taps run dry in Khayelitsha

New Lands in Enkanini has been without water for a month

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News | 9 November 2017

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Affordable housing in Cape Town: are we being fooled?

Rush to build it all in Woodstock and Salt River

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Opinion | 9 November 2017

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Plan to drill for fossil fuels off KZN coast

Report released, then withdrawn

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Feature | 9 November 2017

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Strike at not-for-profit farm

Employees have not been paid since May

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News | 9 November 2017

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65-year-old loses shack in flood

Thembinkosi Mvinjelwa has been waiting for a formal house for many years

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Brief | 9 November 2017

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Post Office to pay social grants

MPs call for investigation into “delays by SASSA” in appointing the Post Office

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News | 8 November 2017

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Department of Education under fire for shoddy statistics

MPs annoyed about poor data on learner transport

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News | 8 November 2017

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Poor service leads to illegal water connections

Western Cape Water Caucus say the problem is widespread

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News | 8 November 2017

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Families live in fear below high-voltage lines

Shack dwellers in Sondela informal settlement have no legal electricity, rubbish collection or toilets

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News | 8 November 2017

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Cape Town’s city centre slum

Residents abandoned by landlord. Now Public Works wants to evict them.

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News | 8 November 2017

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