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One in seven plants and animals in SA threatened with extinction, new report shows

Alien vegetation has a “severe impact” on biodiversity says SANBI

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News | 8 October 2019

Key takeaways: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality

There were over 42,000 criminal complaints against the police from April 2012 to March 2019, and only 531 successful prosecutions

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News | 7 October 2019

Protesters face off against police in Vrygrond

Residents call for an end to shack demolitions

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News | 7 October 2019

Dunoon: the long battle between the taxi operators and the City of Cape Town

Fight over whether operators who exited the industry should be licensed to come back

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News | 7 October 2019

Art centre pressured to remove painting by murderer

Display of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s work raises debate about freedom of expression versus dignity of family of a murdered sex worker

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News | 7 October 2019

Security guard wage negotiations deadlocked

Unions reject offer of 5% increase

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News | 4 October 2019

New social grant system hurts the elderly, study finds

Long queues, no toilets: the closure of the old paypoints leaves pensioners in the lurch

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News | 4 October 2019

Rats still live in Kanana’s filthy ditches

30-year-old settlement is still a mess

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News | 4 October 2019

Occupiers of old age home prepare for another night outside

No court rulings yet on their fate

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News | 3 October 2019

Threat of drought looms over Queenstown

Some residents are already only getting water for an hour a day

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News | 3 October 2019

Old age home occupiers evicted

Residents spend the night on the street in Observatory

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News | 3 October 2019

Groote Schuur unveils new cancer machine that can treat 40 patients a day

The hospital treats 3,000 new oncology patients a year

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News | 3 October 2019

Customer assaults pregnant Shoprite cashier

Video footage shows man hitting eight-months-pregnant Zimkhitha Xhalabile

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News | 2 October 2019

Uber drivers say they’re being harassed by minibus taxis

Taxi association condemns violence

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News | 2 October 2019

Elderly motorist doused with petrol in Dunoon taxi protests

Other vehicles also attacked as taxi operators respond to City clampdown

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News | 1 October 2019