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Health department wants to close informal facility for destitute people

Khululabantu Bam centre in Butterworth described as “not appropriate” for mentally ill

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News | 20 November 2017

Thousands march against Mugabe in Harare

“He lost the plot and should just go. Enough is enough.”

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News | 18 November 2017

Beacon Bay community takes protest to mayor

Showdown looms as residents demand timeframes but Xola Pakati refuses to give any.

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News | 17 November 2017

What Zimbabwe’s coup looked like

An eye-witness account from Harare

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News | 16 November 2017

Slow progress bringing new water to Cape Town

Seven million litres daily added to supply, but this is only 1% of consumption

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News | 16 November 2017

Vital Eastern Cape clinic has only one doctor twice a month

Building had no water or electricity when GroundUp visited

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News | 16 November 2017

Soldiers to be sent to gang-ridden areas, says Mbalula

Minister announces new arrests in Marikana massacre case

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News | 15 November 2017

Residents object to R1.6 million fence for Wynberg Park

City says it is going ahead but will assess the fence route and meet the community

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News | 15 November 2017

Net1 moneylender headed for court

Moneyline counters accusations of reckless lending to social grant beneficiaries

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News | 15 November 2017

“Nowhere to hold my brother’s funeral”

Pietermaritzburg families’ long wait for promised houses

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News | 14 November 2017

Fees Commission proposes free education, but not at university

President releases report of Heher Commission

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News | 13 November 2017

Shack blaze leaves over 900 people homeless in Durban

A two-year-old and an adult died in the fire

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News | 13 November 2017

Neighbours provide water and electricty to informal settlement

City of Cape Town says it’s assessing what is required for infrastructure in Nyunywini, Kraaifontein

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News | 13 November 2017

Family of 8 live in one-room mud house

Disabled daughter doesn’t get her grant because of a birth certificate problem

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News | 11 November 2017

Health care workers fight for recognition by department

“When I die, my children get nothing after so many years of working. I get nothing even when I retire; not even UIF”

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News | 10 November 2017

IPID fails shack dweller after police shooting

Case of attempted murder opened three years after Patrick Sobutyu was shot

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News | 10 November 2017