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Closure of SASSA office leaves Saldanha Bay beneficiaries in the lurch

Applicants for disability grants have to spend R100 on a taxi ride to Vredenburg and back

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News | 4 February 2021

No classes for thousands of children because school cannot meet Covid-19 requirements

Joe Gqabi District Municipality closed ET Thabane Primary School last year

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News | 3 February 2021

Shack dwellers given ten days to vacate railway lines

PRASA plans to resume services on the Cape Town Central Line but an informal settlement is in the way

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News | 3 February 2021

Muizenberg buzzing after Covid-19 beach ban lifted

Food vendors, car guards and surf shops back in business

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News | 2 February 2021

“Passport cops” blackmail immigrants

Police in central Johannesburg accused of extorting bribes and preying on women

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News | 2 February 2021

“We are desperate”: Covid-19 grant beneficiaries still hope for a reprieve

“We really need this grant, as small as it may appear”

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News | 1 February 2021

Covid-19 and ivermectin: SAHPRA reaches settlement with Afriforum

Doctors can apply to use the drug under section 21 of the Medicines Act

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News | 1 February 2021

Doris Mathebula walks 12km a day to fetch water because the municipal boreholes don’t work

Limpopo villagers say Mopani District Municipality has failed them

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News | 1 February 2021

Police use pepper spray against Covid-19 grant queue in East London

Desperate rush to collect grants as deadline looms

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Mkhuseli Sizani, Thamsanqa Mbovane, Masego Mafata, Lloyd Dyongman and Marecia Damons

News | 29 January 2021

City of Cape Town ends mobile library service after 60 years

Elderly and disabled clients advised to use community libraries

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News | 29 January 2021

Covid-19: Empty beaches leave traders stranded

“The closure of beaches has taken away our daily bread”

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News | 29 January 2021

Covid-19 grant: no new applications will be considered, says SASSA

Beneficiaries still hoping the grant will be extended after 31 January

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News | 28 January 2021

Sexual harassment: CCMA rules against Department of Agriculture

Department should have acted because harassment took place on its premises

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News | 28 January 2021

Covid-19 grant beneficiaries hoping for a miracle

Monthly grant is due to come to an end in January

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News | 27 January 2021

Luxor Paints workers awarded R38 million by CCMA

Company to review ruling in Labour Court

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News | 27 January 2021

Filthy train station has been cleaned … but not by PRASA

GroundUp report prompts Freedom Front Plus members to clean up De Mist station in Uitenhage

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News | 27 January 2021