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Eastern Cape community gets water after protests

Kei Road residents agree to liaise with government

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Brief | 1 June 2017

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Couple to receive a house after 50 years in a shack

Plan for 180 houses to be built in Pella, near Atlantis, within 12 months

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News | 1 June 2017

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Rocky start to reblocking at Imizamo Yethu

The reorganisation of the informal settlement, meant to take three months, is struggling to make progress

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News | 31 May 2017

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Doctors say commission ruling on sex work is bad for HIV prevention

Many organisations condemn SALRC report

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News | 31 May 2017

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Asylum seekers targeted by thieves at Home Affairs

More security needed outside refugee centre

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News | 31 May 2017

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RDP recipients want mouldy, cracked houses fixed

Khayelitsha residents say badly built homes should be fixed and maintained by the state

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News | 30 May 2017

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Home based carers want better work conditions

New Crossroads health workers fear victimisation for “speaking out”

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News | 30 May 2017

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Rubbish dump is a hazard for some but a lifeline for others

“I know that the discarded food could be dangerous to the health of me and my child, but I don’t have an option.”

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News | 30 May 2017

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Shack fire claims three lives

Two people narrowly escape Nyanga backyard blaze

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Brief | 30 May 2017

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Court “mustn’t feel sorry” for killer and artist Zwelethu Mthethwa

“In many cases the perpetrators are never found and the [victim] remains unidentified for some time”

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News | 29 May 2017

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How Nedbank sold a family’s fully paid home for R10

And other stories of bank repossessions

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Feature | 29 May 2017

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Lawyer calls for City to find homes for evicted families

Woodstock families are opposing their eviction in Cape Town Magistrates’ Court

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Law | 29 May 2017

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People relieve themselves in bushes in forgotten part of East London

“Paraffin is very expensive … that is why we steal electricity”

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Brief | 29 May 2017

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Nquthu residents explain why they gave ANC the boot

“We have suffered enough and we hope we won’t have to experience this again.”

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News | 26 May 2017

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SA director pulls out of Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival

“It is impossible to look past the fact that the festival could serve as a diversion from the human rights violations being committed by the state of Israel”

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News | 26 May 2017

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MPs and minister argue over social grants in Parliament

Bathabile Dlamini says government is “paying our people properly” because of the work done by Net1

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News | 26 May 2017

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