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“Home Affairs said I was a foreigner because of my vaccination marks”

PE woman claims she was turned away; Home Affairs denies this

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News | 8 March 2017

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400 workers on strike at Kouga Municipality

Municipal workers want Public Works Programme contracts extended; mayor says jobs must be rotated

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News | 8 March 2017

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Deputy minister admits failures at Khayelitsha police stations

Maggie Sotyu said a lack of detectives needed to be addressed “quickly”

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News | 7 March 2017

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New social grants contract to be finalised by Friday

Dlamini says SASSA underestimated the task of taking over grant payments

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News | 7 March 2017

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Court bid to stop CPS making profits from new SASSA contract

Freedom Under Law asks Constitutional Court to block fee increase

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News | 7 March 2017

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Legal dispute stalls Dunoon’s R16.5 million sports centre

Project should have been completed two years ago

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News | 7 March 2017

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Leaving Home

The story of how eviction has hurt a Cape Town family

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Video | 7 March 2017

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Motorists pay toll fees to Zimbabwe’s pothole entrepreneurs

Holes filled with bricks and sand and motorists charged a “thank you” fee

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News | 7 March 2017

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Children at daycare centre live with leaking sewer

Port Alfred residents say problem reported to municipality five months ago

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Brief | 7 March 2017

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Philippi High students demand promised new school

About 150 learners march to the Metro South office of the education department

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News | 6 March 2017

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SASSA backtracks on commitment to Constitutional Court

Social grants agency strikes deal with CPS for two years, not one

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News | 6 March 2017

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Disabled 72-year-old trapped alone in her shack all day

Former domestic worker Beauty Qamata lost her legs to diabetes

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News | 6 March 2017

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Corruption in schools: principals identified as the main culprits

Corruption Watch report on 1,400 cases of corruption in schools

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News | 6 March 2017

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No one must be left behind, says Blikkiesdorp committee

Residents support serviced sites in addition to houses on new land

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Brief | 6 March 2017

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Cape Town organisations protest against xenophobia and “scapegoating”

About 100 march to Parliament

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Brief | 4 March 2017

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Sign declaration or face eviction, says college management

After two weeks of protests, Buffalo City TVET issues ultimatum

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