South Africa|Gauteng

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18-year-old informal miner mourns his dead friend

It’s hard to go underground, but life must go on, says Tawanda

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Feature | 14 June 2018

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What are the limits of our right to know? An apartheid-era crookery case will provide the answer

The South African History Archive is still trying to get information from the Reserve Bank on Vito Palazzolo, Johann Blaauw and Robert Oliver Hill

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News | 14 June 2018

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Victory for Braamfontein cleaners after two-week strike

Workers say outsourcing company was trying to retrench older cleaners

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News | 13 June 2018

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Still no solution for Wembley Stadium families

Families living in tents one year after evictions

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News | 11 June 2018

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Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late

Residents say cooking accident started blaze

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News | 7 June 2018

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People’s Health Movement withdraws from NEHAWU

Anger at failure of union to “distance itself” from hospital protests that endangered patient lives

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Brief | 1 June 2018

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Land occupiers set building alight with family inside

“All I could hear was frantic screaming” says employee of Cremona Cheese Factory

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News | 1 June 2018

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Mayhem at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital as workers demand performance bonuses

Hospital staff were intimidated and patients had to be locked inside for their safety

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News | 31 May 2018

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Land occupiers demand cheese factory site

We have nowhere else to live, say EbuMandini residents

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News | 29 May 2018

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Private taxis cash in after Tsakane minibus rank closure

“When the cat is away, the mice will play,” says taxi driver

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News | 25 May 2018

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Case dropped against arrested informal gold miners

Four miners fined for contravening immigration law

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Brief | 18 May 2018

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We are living in a pigsty, says ward councillor

Informal dumps spread in Tshepisong West as garbage goes uncollected

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Brief | 17 May 2018

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Overcrowding leads to Ekurhuleni land occupation

New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode

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News | 16 May 2018

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Cheese factory has to secure its property or risk losing it

EbuMnandini residents interdicted from occupying Cremona land until September

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News | 12 May 2018

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Miners protest for better safety following Sibanye Stillwater deaths

Unions say there have been 33 fatalities so far in 2018

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News | 11 May 2018

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Protesters call for head of UNAIDS to go

Michel Sidibé apologises to AIDS activists but they say it’s not good enough

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News | 10 May 2018