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R2.3 million taxi rank unused for five years

No explanation from Newcastle municipality

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Brief | 28 November 2019

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Vandalised anti-apartheid museum in PE may soon be open again

Residents closed down Red Location Museum in 2013

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News | 27 November 2019

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Nelson Mandela Bay is drowning in rubbish

Garbage piling up in spite of clean-up programme

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News | 22 November 2019

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RDP housing is at a snail’s pace in Eastern Cape

Construction companies blame government budget constraints

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News | 21 November 2019

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Makana residents blame municipality for filthy dump site

Children play in the rubbish, say residents

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Brief | 21 November 2019

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Western Cape government confronts City of Cape Town over “appalling unhygienic” conditions in Dunoon

City says it has “a service delivery obligation but is not itself the cause of the pollution”

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News | 14 November 2019

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Open manhole is an accident waiting to happen

A drain in Uitenhage has stood uncovered for two months, say residents

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Brief | 13 November 2019

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Marikana protesters bring grievances to Western Cape Premier’s front gate

Informal settlement residents want better security

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News | 31 October 2019

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Limpopo Premier wages “war on potholes” – but only on Facebook

Hours after the photoshoot, the trucks had left

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Brief | 31 October 2019

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Another child drowns in Addo canal

Police have found the body of 11-year-old Olwenene Maqanda

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News | 30 October 2019

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Villagers without drinking water blame government, not the drought

Pipes installed in Dutywa villages in 2008 have never had water

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Brief | 30 October 2019

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Uitenhage gogo given the run-around over water leak

“Instead of explaining yet again, I broke down and cried”

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News | 29 October 2019

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Street vendors’ stalls vandalised

Built in 2014, the stalls have never been used by traders

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News | 29 October 2019

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Thugs scare municipal workers away from broken township drains

Drain in Soweto-on-Sea took months to fix

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Brief | 28 October 2019

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Beerhouse losing customers because of sewage outflow from blocked drain

Tshikota residents complain that drains have not been fixed for years

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Brief | 25 October 2019

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Cofimvaba traders fear being evicted

Municipality plans to renovate business centre

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News | 24 October 2019