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Water meters make life harder for poor people, say Ceres residents

Witzenberg Municipality’s installation plan hits opposition

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Peter Chihoro cycles up to 80km a day fetching wood to make brooms

Zimbabwean has been making brooms for ten years

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Dagga prohibition needs to end

We need a rational approach, grounded in evidence, to growing, selling and consuming cannabis products

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Gordon’s Bay mosque approved after five-year wait

Objectors say further action may follow

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News | 14 October 2019

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Taxi associations accused of terrorising immigrants in Pretoria

Men beaten up, accused of drug dealing

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News | 14 October 2019

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“People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade

Part two in a series on the Pondoland dagga growers

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Feature | 14 October 2019

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Brief | 14 October 2019

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Extinction Rebellion pickets Gwede Mantashe’s department

Global movement against human-caused climate change steps up its South African presence

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Brief | 11 October 2019

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Red ants and rubber bullets are the only service delivery we know, says Brakpan resident

Protesters barricade road after illegal electrical connections removed

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News | 11 October 2019

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Whatever Trump says, whites are not doing badly in South Africa

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The report on the six villages in Sicwenza who have been without running water for seventeen years … Read more

Cape Flats massacre: A symptom of a surrendered state

The massacre in the Marikana informal settlement, where eight people were executed in cold blood, i… Read more

Suspended magistrate: Slow and incompetent judges

I have my own issues with how the Durban High Court operates, specifically with regard to missing f… Read more

St Lucia fishers: protect the constitutional rights of the small-fishers

Whatever the conservation pressures in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Constitution does not perm… Read more

District Six evictions: A polite "no thank you"

If ever there was reason for our National Government to threaten Expropriation without compensation… Read more