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Train activists launch campaign to extend monthly tickets

47 carriages have been lost to fire so far in 2018 according to Metrorail manager

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News | 5 October 2018

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City lost R140 million it could have spent on poor people, say protesters

Housing activists protest at offices of Growthpoint Properties in Cape Town

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Brief | 4 October 2018

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Street vendors accuse Buffalo City of empty promises

“There is no support offered to us, although formal businesses get so much attention from the metro.”

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Brief | 4 October 2018

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Post Office delivers mixed bag for social grant recipients

“We will die standing in this queue” says pensioner

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News | 4 October 2018

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Banks are clogging up the justice system, says court

Pretoria High Court orders banks to use magistrates’ courts when acting against debtors

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Law | 4 October 2018

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“They sit here in Parliament and they are the ones who get the money, and we get death”

Western Cape communities march to parliament and provincial government demanding police curb gang violence

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News | 3 October 2018

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Victory for debtors as judges rule that cases must be referred to lower courts

Pretoria High Court finds that access to justice is denied by dragging cases into high courts

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Law | 3 October 2018

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Overflowing sewage, no electricity, one tap and two toilets for over 300 residents

Residents of Duncan Village blame councillor

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News | 3 October 2018

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Cele promises corruption probe at Sophiatown police station

National Commissioner Khehla Sitole to report back to Westbury residents

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News | 2 October 2018

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Outstanding provident fund contributions: workers will have to wait a bit longer

Judge postpones hearing in Proexec case

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News | 2 October 2018

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Samuel Nndwambi’s murder conviction was overturned. But only after he spent 12 years in prison

He says he can never forgive the state

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Feature | 2 October 2018

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Sheep shearing shed used as a day care centre for 50 children

Community desperate for funds to finish building a proper centre

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Brief | 2 October 2018

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Social grants: still glitches in payment system

People in rural areas have to travel far to draw cash

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News | 2 October 2018

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At least 15 injured as violence erupts in Westbury

Residents throw petrol bombs during protest, police fire rubber bullets

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News | 1 October 2018

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Eastern Cape police commissioner faces angry residents

Problems with policing discussed at Humansdorp imbizo

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News | 1 October 2018

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We do not know if my father’s murder will ever be solved, says son of slain activist

Still no arrests after assassination of Xolobeni leader Bazooka Rhadebe

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News | 1 October 2018

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