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Over 2,000 schools without toilets, says Equal Education

Organisation marks ten years of struggle

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News | 16 November 2018

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Billions spent on railway contracts. Yet Metrorail collapses

Roy Moodley, who is implicated in a leaked forensic report, says that criminal charges have been laid against GroundUp reporters

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News | 16 November 2018

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Saldanha Bay clinic burnt as community anger boils over

Mayor appoints task team to deal with residents’ demands

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News | 16 November 2018

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Evicted Gympie Street residents face bleak future

“For us to go and stay in another place is like starting all over again”

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News | 16 November 2018

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Shacks burnt, residents arrested, man shot in testicles as Durban targets shackdwellers

Anti-Land-Invasion Unit moves into Cato Crest settlement again

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News | 15 November 2018

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Victory for workers at Dis-Chem

Employees who had been working through a labour broker to become permanent

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News | 15 November 2018

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Army has still not complied with court order, say Marievale families

Families evicted from military base say they are being harassed by soldiers

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News | 14 November 2018

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Families can’t bury loved ones as mortuary workers on go-slow

Relatives shocked by conditions in Pietermaritzburg mortuary

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News | 14 November 2018

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Court stops Bo-Kaap residents from interfering with tower block construction

Association says right to protest has been infringed

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News | 13 November 2018

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Farm workers demand dividends from black empowerment scheme

They have accused Endulini Fruit Farm of fronting in order to get land rights

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News | 13 November 2018

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Equal Education calls on Ramaphosa to get involved in fixing schools

This follows decision by Concourt not to hear education department’s appeal against norms and standards judgment

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News | 12 November 2018

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“The struggle for work in East London is hell”

Unemployed men wait on the side of the road for work

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News | 12 November 2018

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MyCiTi workers continue to strike as buses are burnt

Taxi bosses have started defending buses in Milnerton

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News | 9 November 2018

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Metrorail is bad enough if you can see: it’s worse if you’re blind

Blind commuters recount their daily battles on the trains

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News | 9 November 2018

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Simon’s Town shack dwellers’ long wait for housing

Nowethu Ngxangana has been living in Redhill for more than 25 years

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News | 9 November 2018

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Khayelitsha hospital employees accuse management of intimidation

“When we come to work we want to deliver clinical services. … we do not go to work to be fighting labour related matters”

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News | 8 November 2018