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From security guard to successful pig farmer

Cape Town woman started with just three pigs

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Brief | 25 March 2019

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Refugee children turned away by Cape schools

Immigrant parents battle red tape to get their kids in school

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News | 22 March 2019

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Give us water not toilets, say Newcastle residents

Manzana settlement resorts to illegal connections

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Brief | 22 March 2019

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Pietermaritzburg community gripped by fear as witnesses and police are murdered

“These murders are done by people who are known”

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News | 22 March 2019

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Human Rights Day protesters demand better housing

Activist calls for investigation into EThekwini Municipality officials, while in Cape Town Reclaim the City occupied a golf course

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News | 21 March 2019

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Protesters extort cash and goods from immigrant shopkeepers

“I always give them two litres of paraffin for burning tyres during protests”

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News | 21 March 2019

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GROUNDVIEW: Cyril Ramaphosa wants to fix PRASA. Here’s what he needs to do

Metrorail broke down because of state capture

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GroundView | 21 March 2019

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Lottery has to do more with less

R2 billion distributed in 2017/18, but revenue not keeping up with demand for funding

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Brief | 21 March 2019

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Farm workers march to Parliament demanding moratorium on evictions

Call for President Cyril Ramaphosa to keep promise he made in 2014

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Brief | 20 March 2019

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Cape Flats residents protest for houses

Protesters demanded to see MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and then burnt tyres when he did not address them

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News | 20 March 2019

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Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers

City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report

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News | 20 March 2019

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Australian mining manager sued an employee for R200k. The court awarded him R200.

Mineral Commodities responds to GroundUp article

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Right to reply | 20 March 2019

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Unregistered taxis roam our roads

Province should take stronger action

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Opinion | 20 March 2019

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Names drawn from a bucket for KZN roads work

Residents demanded fair allocation of work on Newcastle contract

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News | 20 March 2019

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GROUNDVIEW: Lottery looting needs to be investigated – urgently

Millions of South Africans buy Lottery tickets. There is growing evidence that their trust is being misused.

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GroundView | 20 March 2019

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Police officers march to Parliament

Protesters say they have been overlooked for promotions

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Brief | 19 March 2019

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