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Elections 2021: Witzenberg a ‘model municipality’ tarnished by poor waste management and unemployment

Budget choices in Ceres favouring the administrative centre over neighbouring towns littered with potholes and sewage

Text and Photos by Steve Kretzmann

News | 30 June 2021

Waiter loses job a second time because of the pandemic

Restaurant staff left without any income as SA goes back to Level 4

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News | 29 June 2021

Circumcision schools say new lockdown does not apply to them

Traditional school leaders say they were not consulted and they will only stop if the president explicitly says they must

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News | 28 June 2021

Children’s Institute urges Parliament to increase Child Support Grant by R10

“It is untenable that the poorest and most vulnerable children should have to foot the bill for budget reallocations” says Katharine Hall

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News | 28 June 2021

Charlotte Maxeke partly reopened but only for cancer outpatients

Oncology unit is the first department to open since the hospital closed down after a fire in April.

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News | 28 June 2021

Triangle Project concerned by delayed hate crimes bill

Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill stalled since 2018

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News | 28 June 2021

SACP picket in Western Cape calls for inquiry into “the rot within the police”

The party says the public have lost all confidence and trust in the police

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News | 25 June 2021

Anger over exclusion of ECD centres from teacher vaccinations

Early childhood development centre owners say they are “the forgotten sector”

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News | 25 June 2021

Gauteng families huddle around fire at night without food or sufficient shelter

Ekurhuleni spokesperson says they were evicted because their occupation was illegal but admits housing backlog was “not being eradicated at the pace the homeless community would like to see”

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News | 25 June 2021