PE nurses strike escalates

Health workers are worried about their safety after a spate of assaults

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News | 8 October 2019

One in seven plants and animals in SA threatened with extinction, new report shows

Alien vegetation has a “severe impact” on biodiversity says SANBI

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News | 8 October 2019

Key takeaways: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality

There were over 42,000 criminal complaints against the police from April 2012 to March 2019, and only 531 successful prosecutions

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News | 7 October 2019

Viewfinder: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality in SA

Public records, government data, whistleblowers and victim testimony have converged to show how crimes by police officers have not been investigated properly

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Feature | 7 October 2019

Protesters face off against police in Vrygrond

Residents call for an end to shack demolitions

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News | 7 October 2019

Inanda residents close off roads in protest at power outage

Problem caused by cable theft, says councillor

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Brief | 7 October 2019

Broken promises prompt Pietermaritzburg protest

Promised road construction hasn’t started

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Brief | 7 October 2019

Dunoon: the long battle between the taxi operators and the City of Cape Town

Fight over whether operators who exited the industry should be licensed to come back

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News | 7 October 2019

Don’t rob us, plead ambulance drivers

Emergency services workers protest in PE townships

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Brief | 7 October 2019

City lawyers tell activist organisation to stop helping 80-year-old man facing eviction

Eviction of Kenneth Blaine escalates ideological battle between local government and Reclaim the City

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Feature | 7 October 2019

Art centre pressured to remove painting by murderer

Display of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s work raises debate about freedom of expression versus dignity of family of a murdered sex worker

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News | 7 October 2019

Security guard wage negotiations deadlocked

Unions reject offer of 5% increase

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News | 4 October 2019

Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers

Part one in a two-part series on the Pondoland dagga growers

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Feature | 4 October 2019

New social grant system hurts the elderly, study finds

Long queues, no toilets: the closure of the old paypoints leaves pensioners in the lurch

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News | 4 October 2019

Rats still live in Kanana’s filthy ditches

30-year-old settlement is still a mess

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News | 4 October 2019