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Northlink college students protest over delayed NSFAS payments

Some students in Bellville protested for travel allowances. Others in Parow narrowly avoided eviction from their residence

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News | 4 March 2021

Taps ran dry in Ndwedwe six years ago

Ilembe District Municipality intends to solve the problem by 2024

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News | 4 March 2021

Domestic worker unions slam minimum wage increase

Minister promises catch-up to national minimum wage next year

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News | 4 March 2021

SASSA vows to meet its disability grant deadline

Virtual medical assessments will speed up the process, Western Cape legislature told

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News | 4 March 2021

Right to die: patients would be vulnerable to unscrupulous doctors and relatives, judge hears

Health Professions Council’s lawyer argues that a legal option available to people is to starve themselves to death

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News | 4 March 2021

Protesters occupy Housing Development Agency

They are demanding money for rent while their homes are being rebuilt

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News | 3 March 2021

What makes a learner more likely to drop out?

Having to repeat grades is one factor, and Covid-19 made things worse, according to a new study

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News | 3 March 2021

MPs blast PRASA for inaction

“Gobsmacked by the clear lack of urgency”

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News | 3 March 2021

Covid-19 leaves immigrants desperate for help with food

8,000 families have turned to Zimbabwean embassy for assistance

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News | 3 March 2021

School left with incomplete building

Construction company says it is owed R8 million by Eastern Cape education department

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News | 2 March 2021

Children’s shelter faces closure after department stops funding

“We have no option but to go out in the streets begging” says a 20-year-old living at the shelter

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News | 2 March 2021

Struggling actors feel abandoned by government

Theatre industry devastated by pandemic, but the show must go on, they say

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News | 2 March 2021

Prisoners give management an ultimatum

St Albans hunger strike ends but prisoners want conditions improved

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News | 1 March 2021

Activists oppose bid to survey Woodstock Hospital occupiers

Case to be heard in High Court in April

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News | 1 March 2021

Blow for activists in River Club development

MEC has dismissed appeals against the issue of an environmental authorisation

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News | 1 March 2021