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The school where children kneel on the floor and use chairs as desks

I would love to have my own desk, says grade one learner

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News | 4 May 2017

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National strike at food export board

Workers demand 8.5% increase

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News | 3 May 2017

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Sea Point company fails to pay provident fund despite salary deductions

“That money was going to help me because I have a family in the Eastern Cape depending on me.”

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News | 3 May 2017

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Activists occupy Cape Town building for over a month

“They thought if they switched the electricity off we were going to move out, but we won’t”

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News | 3 May 2017

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Court orders senior municipal managers to pay costs out of their own pocket

Judgment should worry state employees who make incompetent decisions

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Law | 3 May 2017

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Scientific journal threatened by vested interests

Article critical of corporate-funded research retracted

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Opinion | 3 May 2017

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Energy Minister says government may appeal nuclear judgment

Mmamoloko Kubayi acknowledges serious problems in her department

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Brief | 2 May 2017

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Pollsmoor remand facility still at 174% capacity, says Sonke Gender Justice

Conditions have improved but not enough, says report

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News | 2 May 2017

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UCT students treat prisoners to a touch of beauty

“It is a surprise that there are people out there who care for us”

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Brief | 2 May 2017

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Zuma must go now, Pityana tells Port Elizabeth crowd

ANC MPs urged not to “hide” during parliamentary vote

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News | 28 April 2017

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Systemic “failure in Eastern Cape education”

Thousands march to education department in King William’s Town on Freedom Day

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News | 28 April 2017

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A tour of Salt River’s iconic graffiti

Removal of some works reflects an increasingly gentrified neighbourhood

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Photo Essay | 28 April 2017

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Khayelitsha meeting calls for Zuma’s dismissal

“The ANC of Jacob Zuma is not the ANC of the people”

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Brief | 27 April 2017

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Court finds nuclear deals unconstitutional

Agreements with Russia, Korea and US have been scrapped

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News | 26 April 2017

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Ward Councillor Andile Lili calls for residents to rebuild demolished shacks

“We will investigate as councillors should not incite illegal land invasions” says Mayco Member

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News | 26 April 2017

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Port Elizabeth’s biggest taxi rank has no toilets

“The infrastructure is now an eyesore and dilapidating.”

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