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School children recycle waste for food

“This is helping my family very much because my parents do not work,” says seventh-grader

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News | 3 April 2018

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Education department blames Grootkraal community for delays

Supreme Court of Appeal to hear case on community’s right to land in Oudtshoorn

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News | 3 April 2018

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SASSA says Grindrod bank charge is “disingenuous”

SASSA card users will be charged R10 a month plus ATM withdrawal charges

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Brief | 29 March 2018

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Community lives in fear of giant rock

Residents in KwaXimba say they want to be relocated as a matter of urgency

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Brief | 29 March 2018

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Memorial service held for housing activist

“Rasta” Dolophini was fatally stabbed on 18 March

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News | 29 March 2018

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Only one conviction out of 85 in murder hotspot

Part three of a series on political violence and the frustrated search for justice in KwaZulu-Natal

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Feature | 29 March 2018

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Land reform policies criticised at HRC inquiry

Most farm evictions are illegal, claims activist

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News | 29 March 2018

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Family wants answers after relative murdered in hospital

Tapiwa Chipika, a Zimbabwean, is believed to have been strangled in a ward

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Brief | 29 March 2018

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Train strike looms

Union says it has reached deadlock with Prasa

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Brief | 28 March 2018

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Over 5 million social grant beneficiaries to pay R10 “bank charge”

SASSA assures MPs that all grants will be paid from 1 April

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News | 28 March 2018

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Controversial land deal comes back to haunt Hermanus

Madikizela promises protesters a piece of Schulphoek land

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News | 28 March 2018

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Fire “Minister of Broken Promises” says Equal Education

Call for Motshekga to be fired after second school latrine death

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Brief | 28 March 2018

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Hundreds of immigrants displaced in Hermanus

Unrest follows attempted land occupation

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News | 28 March 2018

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Why are there so many land occupations in Cape Town?

City has condemned the “scourge” of “invasions”

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GroundView | 27 March 2018

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Family of murdered Xolobeni activist appeals to NPA to “unblock” investigation

Police inquiry into Sikhosiphi Radebe’s 2016 death is stalled

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News | 27 March 2018

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Shoddy treatment by Home Affairs wrecks families

Lack of transparency and arbitrary policies fail to protect families of refugees, says civil society organisation

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