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“Construction mafia” accused of delaying building of Joburg school

Parents want the reconstruction of Nancefield Primary School investigated

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News | 1 November 2024

Broken promises and neglect: the struggle for clean tap water in rural KZN

“Sometimes we fight over water”

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News | 1 November 2024

Cape Town is losing its trees

As global temperature records continue to be broken, cities need to move fast to protect residents from heat stress. Planting trees seems the simplest solution

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News | 31 October 2024

Limpopo water crisis delays R37-million stadium

Vhembe stadium still unfinished a year after completion was scheduled

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News | 31 October 2024

Parents threaten to shut down crumbling Limpopo school

The School Governing Body has been battling since 2011 to get the buildings fixed

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News | 31 October 2024

Stones thrown at trains in Cape Town

Metrorail says 16 trains have been taken out of service for repairs

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News | 31 October 2024

No lifeline for teachers as Godongwana warns of “difficult trade-offs”

“Budget cuts kill education” protesters tell Minister of Finance

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News | 30 October 2024

Rail: a Masterplan will only be ready by next year, says Ramaphosa

City of Cape Town expresses disappointment at the slow pace of change

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News | 30 October 2024

Bedsores and maggots: Ikamva Labantu’s shocking findings on elder abuse

Research report released into neglect and abuse of older people in Cape Town’s poor communities

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News | 30 October 2024

Mister Sweet workers shut down labour department

They claim that an inspector left a Mister Sweet factory with “a lot of packets of sweets”

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News | 30 October 2024

Ivaldo Macamo lost his leg when the George building collapsed. He is still waiting for compensation

Not one of the families we spoke to has received any payout

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News | 30 October 2024

Parliament debates report on Thabo Bester’s prison escape

“There’s public expectation that the parliamentary process we started in the previous term will be concluded,” says MP

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News | 29 October 2024

African Penguins now officially “critically endangered”

The bird is facing rapid population decline from competition with commercial fisheries and climate-mediated shifts in prey populations

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News | 29 October 2024

Opposition to open cast coal mining in Midvaal

For years residents have been objecting to the Springfield and Vlakfontein mining project

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News | 29 October 2024

South Africans exposed to high levels of lead

In 2022, over 700-tonnes of lead chromates were imported into the country from India alone

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News | 29 October 2024

Government must protect legitimate SRD grant applicants, say activists

Universal Basic Income Coalition say fraudulent applications only represent a “small proportion of applications”

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News | 28 October 2024