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Residents in Pietermaritzburg march for clinic

Community members say they struggle to pay the travel costs to access health services

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Brief | 13 December 2016

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Port Elizabethans express their views on Khoi-San bill

Final public hearing will be in Kimberley in March

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News | 13 December 2016

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Gupta company fails to pay R4.2m clinic bill

Optimum Coal Mine is failing to meet its Mining Charter obligations

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News | 13 December 2016

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Weekend fire in Masiphumelele claims 46 homes

Over 100 people had to rebuild their shacks

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Brief | 12 December 2016

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Court affirms Medicines Control Council’s powers

Judgment is a victory for the scientific governance of medicine

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Law | 12 December 2016

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Title deed muddle puts family on the street

Family told home of 21 years is not theirs

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News | 12 December 2016

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Lack of parliamentary oversight in Western Cape property deals

“Rubber-stamping exercise” says Provincial Property Committee member

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News | 12 December 2016

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Homeless in Durban “dumped” outside the city

Municipality spokesperson says “vagrants” are a “scourge”

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Feature | 9 December 2016

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Meat disappears with police in East London

Police are clamping down on meat hawkers who have been operating for years, but "don't have a clue" what happens to meat they confiscate 

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News | 9 December 2016

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School funding: South Africa can learn from the world

Some countries have managed to improve outcomes for their most disadvantaged learners

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Opinion | 9 December 2016

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Teachers oppose 20% pass mark for maths

"We are setting these children up for failure”

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News | 8 December 2016

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Campaign collects names of murdered sex workers

Unsolved cases collect  dust in police files, says activist

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Brief | 8 December 2016

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Informal couriers beat Zimbabwe import ban

“Malaicha” explain that prices include cost of bribes

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News | 8 December 2016

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Straight or gay: Who inherits when you die?

Constitutional Court rules in favour of same sex partner

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Law | 8 December 2016

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Bus fares to Zimbabwe double in December

Companies cash in on holiday demand

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News | 7 December 2016

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Salt River family ordered to leave their home of 11 years

Nooran Dreyer and her family must leave tomorrow

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News | 7 December 2016

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