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Coastal Bylaw intends to push back Beachfront property spread

But draft criticised for draconian measures such as outlawing foul language

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News | 19 August 2019

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Women neighbourhood watch members lead crime fighting in “most dangerous” communities

“We decided that we couldn’t depend on the police to do everything”

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News | 19 August 2019

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Disaster fund needed to clean KZN river spill

1,6 million litres of fatty oils and caustic soda poured out of Willowton Oil into the Msundusi River on Tuesday leaving a trail of destruction

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News | 18 August 2019

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Traffic information employees unpaid for eight months

Department of Transport’s Road Traffic Management Corporation in legal wrangle with private company Tasima over insourcing employees

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News | 16 August 2019

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Cape Town municipality knew Site B could be sold for more but chose to sell quickly instead

Forensic investigation clears City of wrongdoing but nevertheless raises troubling questions

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News | 16 August 2019

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MyCiTi suspension on N2 hits commuters hard

Khayelitsha commuters are battling with transport costs

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News | 16 August 2019

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Grade R learners told to avoid the school toilets and use the field

Eastern Cape Education Department says Mangelengele Primary School is too small to invest in

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News | 15 August 2019

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DTI washes its hands of lottery scandal

Minister Ebrahim Patel is legally obliged to hold the National Lotteries Commission accountable

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News | 15 August 2019

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RDP beneficiaries live with shoddy construction

“I was a backyarder on the housing list for 33 years before I received this house … I am so disappointed”

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News | 14 August 2019

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Immigrants arrested in JHB raids say they showed police valid papers

Magistrate orders hundreds to be sent to Lindela detention centre

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News | 13 August 2019

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This is what it’s like to go to school in Hanover Park

If they hear gunshots the “kids know if they outside they have to go to the nearest classroom and hit the floor”

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News | 12 August 2019

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“Proud to be trans, proud to be sex workers, and even prouder of their stunning sense of style”

Trans women sex workers collective Sistaazhood launches photo book

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News | 12 August 2019

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Sex workers speak of rape, corruption and harassment by police

Human Rights Watch calls for decriminalisation

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News | 12 August 2019

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Gatvol Capetonian leaders take housing protest to the mayor

Several protests were held across the city on Thursday morning

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News | 8 August 2019

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Western Cape health services paint bloody picture of gun violence

“We are doing battleground medicine,” says minister

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News | 8 August 2019

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“No one was going to believe me” says rape survivior

Eastern Cape women struggle with prosecution of rapists

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News | 8 August 2019