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Anger at huge price tag for life-saving medicine

Price of effective treatment for hepatitis C is over 600 times what it costs to produce

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News | 28 July 2016

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Study links wage increase to job losses on farms

But researchers cautious about findings

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News | 28 July 2016

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“Glitch” with invoice delays R34 million Bhisho memorial centre

Department of Public Works did not pay engineers

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News | 28 July 2016

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ANC supporters in court over attack on rival candidate

Tension boils over in Eastern Cape ward

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News | 27 July 2016

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Fire victims left without electricity for months

Residents in Masiphumelele wetlands have been without power since November 2015

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News | 27 July 2016

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No water, no tarred roads, no clinic, no schools: the forgotten community of eGoqweni

Residents haven’t seen their ward councillor since 2014

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News | 27 July 2016

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Homeless in city ask society to change its ways

Nearly 300 “street people” have put their names to a list of demands

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News | 27 July 2016

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Foreign shops looted in Mbekweni

Residents burn and loot shops after meeting fails to resolve land issue

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News | 26 July 2016

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Two years later, still no action on police assault

Witnesses yet to be interviewed

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News | 26 July 2016