Articles for Masego Mafata

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Hundreds of Clover workers picket outside Department of Trade

Workers have been on strike since November 2021

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News | 13 January 2022

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JHB parents queue to place their children in schools

MEC Lesufi says number of unplaced learners is down to 700 this year compared to 35,000 last year

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News | 12 January 2022

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Alexandra’s residents clean up township

Government welcomes community forum’s effort

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Brief | 15 December 2021

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Government isn’t doing enough to protect and support whistleblowers, report finds

Corruption Watch releases report to mark International Anti-Corruption Day

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News | 10 December 2021

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Staff at Charlotte Maxeke hospital ask President to intervene

“We need a firm plan and a dedicated budget”

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News | 7 December 2021

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Researchers surveyed schools in a Gauteng township. This is what they found

Activists launch campaign against overcrowding

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News | 29 November 2021

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The minister, the Lottery boss and the luxury R5.6 million home

The strange story of the house Fikile Mbalula offered to buy

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Feature | 29 November 2021

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Long queues at Home Affairs in spite of minister’s promise

But provincial manager claims “Home Affairs has declared war on queues”

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Photo Essay | 29 November 2021

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Cancer patients wait up to five years for treatment in Gauteng, say health activists

They marched on Tuesday to demand that Gauteng Premier David Makhura intervenes

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News | 23 November 2021

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“We rely on dams and crocodile-infested rivers for water”

Limpopo villagers with limited access to water picket at Union Buildings on Thursday

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News | 19 November 2021

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JHB neighbourhoods battle without water

Water supplying company says it’s relying on residents without access to call them so a tanker can be dispatched

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News | 17 November 2021

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Principals are drowning in the education department’s admin demands

“I live in perpetual fear of missing deadlines and other principals say the same”

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News | 12 November 2021

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Health activists call for patent law reform

Patents prevent equal access to life-saving medicines, protesters say

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News | 9 November 2021

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Civil society calls on the public to stand up and fight corruption

Defend our Democracy announces anti-corruption week for 3 to 10 December

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Brief | 9 November 2021

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Credit regulator fails to explain why it has withdrawn action against controversial money lender

Moneyline had been accused by Black Sash of using social grants as collateral for loans

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News | 8 November 2021

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Survivors of apartheid violations sleep outside Constitutional Court

They want government to pay them reparations they believe are owed to them

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News | 27 October 2021