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Disabled learners turned away from school

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Funding crisis shuts down children’s centres in Gauteng

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Criminal complaint lodged against Benjamin Rattle, a South African serving in the Israeli military

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Pit toilet eradication deadline missed by Limpopo education department

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Toddlers electrocuted by illegal electrical wires

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Zimbabweans complain of Home Affairs incompetence

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Get the trains running immediately, say protesters

Cape Town commuters march from Heideveld train station to the station in Nyanga

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Elections 2024: What the major political parties say about immigration

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People struggle to get IDs at Khayelitsha Home Affairs as elections loom

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Police and soldiers deployed to tiny West Coast fishing village

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Cape Town commuters return to Southern Line as service improves

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