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Ignorance about people with HIV still exists in 2018

“It was like I was dirty … I had no choice but to leave home”

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News | 7 September 2018

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Criminal justice system abused to stifle protest, says report

Right2Protest coalition launches State of Protest Report

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News | 7 September 2018

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Women create refuge for abused people living with disability

“In one house a child was tied to a fridge”

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News | 7 September 2018

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Commuters want September train tickets to be valid for two months

Metrorail admits 37% trains delayed and 18% cancelled in August in Cape Town

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News | 6 September 2018

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Zimbabweans in limbo after giving Home Affairs asylum papers

Special dispensation was meant to regularise Zimbabweans but left many undocumented for years

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News | 6 September 2018

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We were cheated by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, say residents

Protests in Uitenhage over housing by relocated residents

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Brief | 6 September 2018

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Woman opens her home to abandoned children

Nomtha Mboneli is caring for ten children in her village in the rural Eastern Cape

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Brief | 6 September 2018

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Hitchhikers targeted by East London taxi drivers

Hitchhiking is killing our business, say taxi operators

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News | 6 September 2018

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Expropriation from the poor

Reblocking of informal settlements can be development in reverse, argues Jared Sacks

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Opinion | 6 September 2018

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We will not be intimidated, says Abahlali leader

Activists defy persistent threats in KZN

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Feature | 5 September 2018

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Refugee Reception Offices still not fully functioning, MPs told

Port Elizabeth office not receiving new applicants, two years after deadline set by court

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Brief | 5 September 2018

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Human rights: We should not only target the state, says Constitutional Court judge

Companies and individuals also have duties

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Opinion | 5 September 2018

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Cape Town approves rezoning of prime property for social housing in inner city

Housing activists want 1,050 affordable apartments in the Somerset Precinct

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News | 5 September 2018

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Sea Point company’s owners in legal trouble for failing to pay provident fund

Proexec’s former employees say company failed to pay their provident fund contributions into the fund

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News | 4 September 2018

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Maiden’s Cove development under fire

The matter is now before the courts

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News | 4 September 2018

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Peace monument now a drinking spot

The Seven Day War memorial in Pietermaritzburg has been vandalised

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News | 4 September 2018

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