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No water in Qwaqwa villages since 2018

Villagers battle to access water, yet government says R220 million supply project is far advanced

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News | 14 April 2021

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SASSA on target to clear Western Cape disability grant backlog, agency says

Only 10,000 people still need assessments, SASSA says, but Black Sash is sceptical

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News | 14 April 2021

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Immigrant spaza shop owners driven out of Atlantis

Police failed to intervene

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News | 13 April 2021

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National Arts Festival may go live again

Makhanda residents hoping for a better year

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News | 13 April 2021

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Over 5,000 learners still not placed at schools in the Western Cape

Education department says many of the learners applied late

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News | 13 April 2021

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Labour Court rules against Lottery’s unfair dismissal of senior employee

Judge said NLC’s action “flagrantly disingenuous as well as cynical”

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News | 13 April 2021

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Education department shuts down unregistered rural school. But parents say they cannot afford to send their children elsewhere

Volunteers did the teaching and the principal paid for the building

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News | 12 April 2021

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Ugly battle over social housing in Cape Town

Former employees of Communicare, dismissed for fraud, go to court to oppose evictions

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News | 12 April 2021

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NLC Commissioner misleads Parliament – again

Dodgy lawyer paid millions in Lottery grants while also doing legal work for NLC

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News | 9 April 2021

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High demand for contraceptive pills smuggled in from Zimbabwe

The market is fuelled by the struggle women have to access health facilities

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News | 9 April 2021

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Workers pay for CCMA services that were once free

CCMA in Benoni “has outsourced to the internet cafe next door”

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News | 9 April 2021

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Two communities battle Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality over housing

Relocation project on hold

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News | 9 April 2021

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Homeless people challenge Cape Town by-laws in court

City by-laws are unconstitutional and discriminatory says Ndifuna Ukwazi Law Centre

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News | 8 April 2021

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Learners are taught outside at tiny rural school

District officials are visiting the school in Ndwedwe

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News | 8 April 2021

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Covid-19: Lindiwe Sisulu fails to deliver R600 million rent relief

Housing activists demand answers eight months after Sisulu’s budget vote announcement

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News | 7 April 2021

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Environment group goes to court to block wetland road project

Endangered Cape toad at centre of dispute as government approves ‘crucial’ new Noordhoek road link

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News | 7 April 2021