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ConCourt orders Woolies to reinstate retrenched workers six years later

Simon’s Town shack dwellers’ long wait for housing

Photographer demands his photo of Mandela back from UCT

Western Cape home affairs ‘not suitable for human occupation’

Derelict Home Affairs office in Atlantis shut down by department of labour

Evicted KZN families say they are ‘only good for votes’

New postgraduate student funding crisis looms

Opinion

HHP proves depression is not a ‘white disease’

KZN school scoops top water conservation awards in London

Rwandan man faces death if he is deported home

‘Where are the gangsters?’ asks Ramaphosa, while surrounded by the gangsters

Knysna fire victims blame slow response for tragedy

Gogos now have to pay to queue for pensions

Leaked reports show how ‘Zuma’s friend’ made millions from Prasa security

Police and MPs blame immigrants, unemployment, gangs, and each other for crime

Home Affairs in court after official tears up child’s passport

Over 800 people homeless after Vrygrond fire

High court blocks activist event in Woodstock

R162m housing project incomplete after over a decade

Kosovo fire victims slowly rebuild their lives

Metrorail commuter files assault charge

Heartbreaking stories after massive Khayelitsha blaze

Zim Bollar: A guide to Zimbabwe’s black market

Young, broke and in debt

Human rights lawyer charged for pointing his finger at policeman

Residents turn violent on drug dealers in Hillbrow

Zimbabwean waiter uses his wages to run a free soccer academy

Prasa employee hailed for her role in saving R1bn from VBS bank heist

Africa

Will Kgalema Motlanthe’s Zimbabwe killings inquiry be credible?

Forcibly removed under apartheid. Now they want their land back. But it’s occupied.

Opinion

‘Timetables have become decorations on the Metrorail boards’

Workers threaten shutdown of KZN public health services

Man’s murder conviction overturned after he spends 12 years in prison

At least 15 injured as violence erupts in Westbury

Bazooka’s family say police show no appetite to solve his murder

Home Affairs official told 86-year-old ‘to go back to Lesotho’

De Lille requests investigation into Foreshore property sale

Health

New tuberculosis vaccine raises hopes

Wimpy targeted by animal rights campaigners

Top policeman shocks MPs with list of Prasa’s failure on rail safety

Mantashe distances himself from mining company’s ‘secret deal’ with him

Chaos at Bellville taxi rank after violence leads to closure

Home Affairs accused of ‘passport plot’ to force Zimbabweans to go home

Zimbabwean teachers in SA unpaid for months

Nine-year-old circumcised at school by ‘mistake’

Prasa takes disciplinary action against staff implicated in corruption

Land occupiers take over Cape Town sports field. Now building double-storeys

Home Affairs taking nine months to process permits for Zimbabweans

Metrorail activists call for national disaster to be declared

Exorbitant prices at Gauteng shops after closure of foreign-owned rivals

Civil servant goes to prison for stealing farm

Commuters want September train tickets to be valid for two months

We were cheated by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, say residents

Zimbabweans in limbo after giving Home Affairs asylum papers

Hitchhikers targeted by East London taxi drivers

Community members go hungry after chasing away foreign shop owners

Cape High Court backlog keeps getting worse

Bathabile Dlamini won’t have to pay back the money

Citrus workers on strike in Eastern Cape

Shack dwellers kept back at gunpoint as 81 homes demolished

Cops killed Hout Bay fisherman and stole his body, witnesses allege

RDP houses turn into livestock farms in Eastern Cape

Cops probed over missing Hout Bay fisherman

Mandela home in ruins

Girls expelled from Durban school for kissing

Africa

Gay Congolese man’s harrowing journey to reach asylum in South Africa

These people were excited to get RDP homes from government. Then it rained

Port Elizabeth school refuses to play in a township

Grade 8 learner sent home for having Afro hair

Africa

Violence in Harare: an eyewitness account

Unisa students in uproar over NSFAS funds

Openness of Bongani Mayosi’s family on his suicide shows great courage

Africa

Harare residents hail first election where state hasn’t used violence

Africa

Zimbabweans in SA long for a country they can again call home

Farmer gets death threat from radical economic transformation lobbyist