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Nyanga Community Police Forum joins police resource court case

Litigation to compel police minister and national commissioner to allocate police resources equitably

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Brief | 23 September 2016

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Bromwell residents will not be evicted on Monday

Parties to argue in court on 4 November

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Brief | 23 September 2016

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Push for District Six to be heritage site

This will not prevent restitution process, says museum

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News | 23 September 2016

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Court strikes down Home Affairs directive on asylum seekers and refugees

“High time questions are asked why the department continues to waste taxpayer’s money” with fruitless litigation, says lawyer

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Brief | 23 September 2016

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Women in Ruyterwacht help evicted and vulnerable

“This is a new South Africa, a South Africa for everybody, a South Africa of change, a South Africa to uplift our people. So what is happening here?”

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News | 23 September 2016

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District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list

Five decades after it was declared whites only, Shariefa Davids misses her old neighbourhood

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Feature | 23 September 2016

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Fees Must Fall protesters disrupt Rhodes University

Call for government to increase university funding from 0.5% to 1% of GDP

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Brief | 23 September 2016

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Getting a shoe in with business

Asinazo Mzimeli has started a shoe-making business in her shack in Philippi

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News | 23 September 2016

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RDP houses worse than shacks

Residents in East London have waited for over a decade for their homes to be completed

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News | 23 September 2016

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How does an illegal gold miner get money across the border?

A new breed of money couriers has earned the trust of immigrants shut out of formal banking

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News | 23 September 2016

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Giving birth where there are no clinics

Women in rural areas struggle to access midwife care

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News | 23 September 2016

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NMMU students picket at court in support of arrested protesters

They demand free education

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News | 22 September 2016

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Fort Hare students burn campus equipment building

Management at a loss as to why it happened after agreeing to student demands

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News | 22 September 2016

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Charges dropped against 27 in Masiphumelele public violence case

State failed to produce the docket in court

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Brief | 22 September 2016

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Students and academics picket at Parliament

But demonstration is divided, with some students refusing to protest with faculty

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News | 22 September 2016

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In Memory of Comrade Nkosi Molala - Honorary President of the Black Consciousness Movement

He refused to be co-opted into a government that oppresses poor people

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Opinion | 22 September 2016

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