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Parkwood housing project gets underway

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Pine Road residents worried about City plan

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News | 2 August 2018

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News | 2 August 2018

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Muti traders protest after fire

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Thousands march against gender-based violence across South Africa

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Who is burning Cape Town’s trains?

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News | 1 August 2018

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Rats and raw sewage part of daily life in Dunoon

City to spend R5 million to combat blocked drains in the area

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News | 1 August 2018

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Spate of vigilante killings in Dunoon

“We don’t support mob justice but people are sick and tired of crime”

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News | 31 July 2018

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Municipal police accused of xenophobic attack

Immigrants running hair salons in Pietermaritzburg say they were assaulted even though they are operating legally

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News | 31 July 2018

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Guard murdered for protecting RDP houses from thieves

Tshutsha Daniso was shot dead trying to prevent buildings in Mfuleni from being stripped while they are being built

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Harare’s poorest residents vote in fear

“We live in a pool of faeces. Yet they want to control who we vote for.”

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News | 31 July 2018

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UNISA students in uproar over NSFAS funds

Protesters close roads in Pietermaritzburg

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Brief | 31 July 2018

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Why Woodstock Hospital has become a home for hundreds

“Legal or not, it is home. And it is a lot better than where I come from.”

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News | 31 July 2018

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Gautrain workers strike for 10% wage increase and other benefits

Bombela offers 8.6%

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News | 30 July 2018

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Eastcape Midlands College campuses shut down

Students demand their NSFAS funds

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