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eThekwini flooded with sewage due to treatment plant failures

Experts and political parties have accused the municipality of minimising the enormity of the sewage pollution

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News | 11 November 2022

Cikizwa is going to school at last

Education department steps in after GroundUp article

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News | 10 November 2022

Magistrate accused of bias in eviction case

Venice Burgins had made her views on Communicare clear in social media posts. Yet she failed to recuse herself from a case involving the social housing company.

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News | 9 November 2022

Dreams deferred for matriculants who can’t get IDs

Without an identity document, hopes of further study are dashed

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News | 8 November 2022

Many mysteries surround the death of ā€˜Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester

SAPS says the outcome of DNA tests to determine the body’s identity can be expected ā€œat any stageā€, six months on from the fire.

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News | 8 November 2022

Terry Pheto’s house may go up for auction to recover Lottery funds

Numerous properties belonging to Lotteries Commission executives, their relatives and cronies frozen by court order

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News | 7 November 2022

Development will destroy Philippi’s farming, say activists

MEC Bredell to consider new Environmental Impact Assessment and public comments this week for Philippi Horticultural Area

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News | 7 November 2022

Lavender Hill pool player gives it stick

Shaiyene Fritz says her passion for pool started when she was nine years old

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News | 4 November 2022

Problems crash Gqeberha 10111 emergency line

Loadshedding, staff shortages and a fire leave residents furious at slow police response

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News | 3 November 2022

Waiting for the scrapheap: hundreds of Shosholoza Meyl’s rusted carriages to be scrapped and sold

Most of PRASA’s long-distance train carriages ā€œobsoleteā€

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News | 3 November 2022

More delays in case of 22 cops accused of murdering Regan Naidoo in 2018

We just want justice, says father of 32-year-old

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News | 3 November 2022

Toilets closed at Knysna taxi rank: municipality blames loadshedding

Commuters, vendors and taxi drivers complain about the smell

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News | 3 November 2022

Gauteng government backtracks on housing promises

From a ā€œmega projectā€ to an ā€œupgradeā€: Marikana Soutpan families are still waiting

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News | 2 November 2022

Electricity meters installed after months of protests are faulty, say Gqeberha shack dwellers

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality warns of fines of up to R8,000 for using izinyoka connections

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News | 2 November 2022

City of Cape Town and immigrant shop owners meet to resolve tensions

ā€œWe come unannounced not to catch you doing wrong things, but to ensure that your shop is in satisfactory hygienic conditionā€

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News | 2 November 2022

Millions to be spent to complete abandoned Lottery-funded projects

Engineers to be paid directly to finish multi-million rand infrastructure projects

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News | 31 October 2022