South Africa

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We are living with the dead, say Cookhouse residents

Families complain graves are too close to their houses

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News | 14 January 2020

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Gugulethu residents accuse taxi drivers of crime

Avanza private car taxi operators accused of rape and robbery

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News | 13 January 2020

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Nightmare start to 2020 for thousands of Cape Town commuters

Khayelitsha bus and train services still suspended

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News | 13 January 2020

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From street child to open water athlete

Thabiso Molefi ran away from home at 14. Five years later he swam from Robben Island to Blouberg

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News | 13 January 2020

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Scores attend funeral of poisoned children in Motherwell

Families considering legal action against municipality

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Brief | 13 January 2020

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No pay, no work: Eastern Cape ambulance drivers down keys

They say back-pay owed to them was promised by 6 January

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Brief | 10 January 2020

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Greenmarket Square refugees have split into “two hostile groups”

Reverend Alan Storey’s church has provided shelter to hundreds of people for months but the situation has become untenable

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Brief | 10 January 2020

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Clinic closes to most patients after burglary

Kuyasa clinic usually treats about 400 patients per day

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News | 10 January 2020

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Thousands wait for hours at understaffed Beitbridge border

Nearly 60,000 people crossed the border back into South Africa over a 24-hour period last week

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Brief | 10 January 2020

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Toilet cleaners battle to get detergents and equipment from Buffalo City Municipality

Cleaners say they pay for their own cleaning materials

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Brief | 9 January 2020

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Pigs feast on human excrement as township drain overflows

KwaNobuhle residents have been complaining about leaks for two years, they say

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Brief | 9 January 2020

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Municipality silent on hijacked houses in Nelson Mandela Bay

Report shows nearly one in five houses in Missionvale project are not occupied by rightful owner

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News | 9 January 2020

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“We had no idea he couldn’t walk” claims shop owner who refused access to child in wheelchair

But child’s mom hits back in Equality Court papers

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News | 9 January 2020

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City to move against Greenmarket Square refugees

Refugee leader says they remain “hopeful” that City will provide temporary shelter

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Brief | 8 January 2020

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Death of children from toxic waste: municipality blames residents for dumping

But deadly dumpsite cleared at last

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Brief | 8 January 2020

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“We grew up as backyarders and we are still backyarders today”

Arcadia House occupiers plead for affordable housing near Cape Town’s inner city

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Brief | 8 January 2020