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Prisoner fights in court for fellow inmate with brain cancer

Court orders Mike Phahlamohlaka must be considered for medical parole

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News | 9 May 2017

Labour department can’t protect workers

One inspector for every 120,000 people

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News | 9 May 2017

Masiphumelele residents show Public Protector how they live

“We stay in a pigsty”

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News | 8 May 2017

Controversial Australian company applies for extension to mining rights

New mining area would include ten beaches on the West Coast

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News | 8 May 2017

Gauteng learners demand replacement of asbestos buildings

29 schools constructed of asbestos were supposed to be fixed by November 2016

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News | 5 May 2017

Prisoners go on hunger strike over parole dispute

“We trust that you will realise the implications that might be triggered by your ignorance of this memorandum”

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News | 5 May 2017

Parents burn tyres as they demand registration of school

“We tried to do things in the proper way, but nothing happened”

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News | 4 May 2017

SAPS could withdraw opposition to resource allocation case

Deputy Police Minister said case would not be contested, but unclear if he meant it

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News | 4 May 2017

Pietermaritzburg housing project remains incomplete four years later

Beneficiaries of R2.1 billion project believe construction has stopped because of poor quality structures

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News | 4 May 2017

The school where children kneel on the floor and use chairs as desks

I would love to have my own desk, says grade one learner

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News | 4 May 2017

National strike at food export board

Workers demand 8.5% increase

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News | 3 May 2017

Sea Point company fails to pay provident fund despite salary deductions

“That money was going to help me because I have a family in the Eastern Cape depending on me.”

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News | 3 May 2017

Activists occupy Cape Town building for over a month

“They thought if they switched the electricity off we were going to move out, but we won’t”

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News | 3 May 2017

Pollsmoor remand facility still at 174% capacity, says Sonke Gender Justice

Conditions have improved but not enough, says report

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News | 2 May 2017

Zuma must go now, Pityana tells Port Elizabeth crowd

ANC MPs urged not to “hide” during parliamentary vote

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News | 28 April 2017

Systemic “failure in Eastern Cape education”

Thousands march to education department in King William’s Town on Freedom Day

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News | 28 April 2017