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Residents and municipality blame each other after child electrocuted

Nine-year-old stepped on wires from illegal electricity connection

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News | 10 December 2019

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Cautious welcome for Mbalula’s shock PRASA announcement

Commuter groups hope to see action

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News | 9 December 2019

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No justice for Khayelitsha woman, raped while taking a nap

Activists say they were horrified to see accused walking around the court’s waiting area

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News | 9 December 2019

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Agreement on new nature reserve for the West Coast

After more than a decade of lobbying, Olifants River estuary to be protected

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News | 9 December 2019

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Families living in classrooms for 18 years to be relocated

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says they will be moved in January

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News | 6 December 2019

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Extinction Rebellion urges Environment Minister to declare climate emergency

“This is the time for you to act”, Creecy told

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News | 5 December 2019

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Pietermaritzburg families burying their loved ones at home as cemeteries fill up

Municipality now using pathways in cemetery for graves

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News | 5 December 2019

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Evidence of IPID cover-up mounts, but Joemat-Pettersson declines to act

Auditor-General warned police watchdog against manipulating statistics in 2017

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News | 5 December 2019

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Opposition to City of Cape Town’s business park plan

The City wants to turn part of the Racing Park into emergency housing units

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News | 4 December 2019

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Osizweni residents cry foul on road construction jobs

Their names were drawn, but they never got the promised work

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News | 4 December 2019

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Motshekga gets poor rating from Equal Education after six months

“People’s appraisal” held outside minister’s Pretoria office

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News | 3 December 2019

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Bid to protect West Coast jewel from mining

Controversial Australian company applies for further prospecting rights

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News | 3 December 2019

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Farrar Park residents blame dumping for spoiling neighbourhood

Mining company refuses to erect new fence

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News | 3 December 2019

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Metropolitan cites obscure rule to withhold full amount of interest from Durbanville man

Company denies claim but offers to pay half as “goodwill gesture”

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News | 2 December 2019

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“What is the use of voting while we are still suffering”

Pietermaritzburg residents say they were promised houses years ago

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News | 2 December 2019

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Commuter Lunga Zawa uses a wheelchair. But Nyanga station is only accessible by stairs

Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled has been fighting since 2015 for better access

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News | 29 November 2019