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Buy our land - Siqalo residents tell City

Residents from the informal settlement say landowners are willing to sell

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News | 12 May 2016

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Immigrant-owned shops looted in St Francis Bay, closed in Humansdorp

Violence said to be sparked by murder and mob justice

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News | 12 May 2016

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UCT Shackville protesters effectively expelled

Protest on campus in response

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Brief | 12 May 2016

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UCT students hold event against rape culture

Meeting ends in acrimony between participant and vice-chancellor

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News | 11 May 2016

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Award-winning Zimbabwean N7 farmers’ version of events disputed

Landowners give different account

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News | 11 May 2016

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Government tenants march to human settlements MEC

Tenants from a number of areas fear removals

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News | 11 May 2016

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Masiphumelele taxis vs residents: community leader confident agreement is imminent

It appears there is progress towards a peace agreement between the Masiphumelele community and the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata).

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News | 11 May 2016

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How you can help mother of disabled children

Donate into her new bank account or drop off clothes at GroundUp

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News | 11 May 2016

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Learners fear school might fall on them

A primary school in East London is on the brink of collapse - literally

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News | 11 May 2016

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Councillor doesn’t know “the meaning of service delivery” say protesters

Residents in Pietermaritzburg say they are without water

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News | 11 May 2016

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Riot in Grabouw over housing

Traffic department destroyed and schools closed

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Photo Essay | 11 May 2016

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A confusion of unions

Talk is of unity, but actions are divisive

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Opinion | 11 May 2016

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Medical experts question mayor giving platform to Patrick Holford

“Don’t follow Mbeki’s footsteps” says academic to Patricia de Lille

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News | 10 May 2016

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SA vaccination programme in trouble says the man who ran it until December

Complaints about unreliable data, staffing problems and stockouts, but Health Department denies there’s a problem

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News | 10 May 2016

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Game of thrones in Pilanesberg

Three-way battle over Bakgatla chieftainship

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News | 10 May 2016

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Children of immigrants face expulsion from Eastern Cape schools

“This decision will ruin our children" says woman from Somalia

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News | 9 May 2016

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