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Councillor’s office set ablaze by people whose shacks were demolished

Violence is the language the government understands, says land occupier

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News | 12 June 2018

Illegal electricity connections are our only option, say shack-dwellers

“We know how dangerous these cables are”

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News | 12 June 2018

Still no solution for Wembley Stadium families

Families living in tents one year after evictions

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News | 11 June 2018

Khayelitsha residents destroy shack in xenophobic attack

“People destroyed my shack and took everything. They say they don’t want a kwere kwere to stay here.”

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News | 11 June 2018

No help for East London orphanage

For 27 years, Duncan Village woman has been offering a home to orphans

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News | 11 June 2018

Activists launch cell phone campaign for better health system

900 people sign up in two days

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News | 11 June 2018

Department of Labour to use billion-rand surplus to extend UIF benefits

Unemployed workers will be paid out for up to a full year

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News | 11 June 2018

Zimbabwean children miss exams as Home Affairs sends them from city to city

“These people are not considerate. Why work with refugees when they do not have refugees’ interests at heart?”

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News | 8 June 2018

Meet Adriaan du Toit, the “independent” geologist who trolls environmentalists and Cyril Ramaphosa

Du Toit’s work helped an Australian company get prospecting rights on the West Coast

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News | 8 June 2018

City commits to accommodating Maynard Street tenants

“There will be no evictions” says councillor

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News | 8 June 2018

Mfuleni shack-dwellers have been using an open field as a toilet. Now even the field is too dirty

Communal toilets in Burundi informal settlement haven’t been cleaned since January

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News | 8 June 2018

Citrus strike ends as farmers agree to R20 an hour

Workers in Sundays River Valley return to farms

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News | 7 June 2018

Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late

Residents say cooking accident started blaze

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News | 7 June 2018

Gugulethu man blames City contractors for his crooked house

Mzwandile Mvumvu believes his house collapsed after work was done on sewage pipes outside

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News | 7 June 2018

Solar water heater programme goes cold

Atlantis factory faces closure and the loss of 85 jobs

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News | 7 June 2018

Post Office to pay all social grants, including cash

MPs call for government to investigate CPS dealings

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News | 7 June 2018