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UCT students set up camp in solidarity with Palestinians

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Large fishing companies oppose squid quotas in court

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Premier steps in to resolve funding crisis at Gauteng social development department

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Victims of 2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods march to demand housing

Hundreds come to central Durban to hand over memo to Premier’s office

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Blow for Woodstock social housing plans

Tribunal overturns Heritage Western Cape decision to allow development at the Earl Street site

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The traffic department that hasn’t issued a ticket for years

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Unpaid contractors block central Gqeberha with garbage trucks and water tankers

The municipality agreed to pay service providers by next week

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Sewage pollutes KwaZulu-Natal’s popular south coast lagoons

None of the 19 sewage treatment plants managed by the Ugu District Municipality are properly treating sewage released into rivers and lagoons

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Dozens of shacks demolished in Midrand

Shackdwellers say they’ll keep rebuilding because they have nowhere else to go

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Wits students set up Palestinian solidarity encampment

University senate expected to meet this week

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Soup kitchen serves Eastern Cape children the only meal they’ll eat that day

The Human Rights Commission has recommended that child malnutrition in the province be declared a disaster

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Thousands of people abandoned as the Gauteng Social Development Department implodes

Vulnerable people are being failed by an inefficient and corrupt department

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Durban households still without water as reservoir levels remain critically low

Residents of Ntuzuma welcomed the arrival of a municipal water truck on Sunday after more than a week without water

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Electoral Court fines ANC, ATM, COPE, PAC, NFP and AIC

They failed to provide audited financial statements

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Universal Basic Income Grant: What should a payment system look like?

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Workers march against looming retrenchments at Sibanye-Stillwater

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