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Officials burst in on naked woman in Nkandla

EFF and ANC attack each other over Brakpan land occupation

Court orders end to mud schools

Was the Cape water shortage caused by farmers, city dwellers or drought?

Gigaba promised to improve the queues. It hasn’t happened

Gay couples complain of discrimination at Home Affairs

ANC hiring of ‘teagirl’ sparks protest in Uitenhage

Social grant beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues

Trollip’s government agrees to cough up backpay to workers from ANC era

Protest in Pietermaritzburg leaves residents in the dark

More than 80 families use one toilet

Hundreds flock to occupy municipal land in Pietermaritzburg

How Bo-Kaap’s rising property prices are threatening a community

Nearly 800 000 people affected by Sassa payment glitches

‘Only the poor man feels it’, say commuters after petrol hikes

DA slams EFF for leading land occupations in Brakpan

How having an injury turned into a Home Affairs nightmare

Policeman accused of beating women because they are lesbian

Health workers strike for safer working conditions

Sceptics raise alarm about future of waste pickers in new recycling plans

Why do informal settlements get so cluttered with litter?

Judge ‘couldn’t care less’ Hlophe fails to explain why judgments are so late

Glimmer of hope for solar geyser programme now on a budget of R0

Rubber bullets fired at EFF-led Brakpan land occupiers

Protesters accuse ANC of job favouritism, shut down construction site

De Lille and protesters in tense stand-off

Health

As much as 40% of the HIV-positive in SA still not on treatment

Unsuspecting Sassa beneficiary ‘duped’ into getting green EasyPay card

When your rubbish doesn’t get collected ‘for years’

PE power cuts lead to violence from angry World Cup fans

EFF: Give us this Brakpan land or give us death

Toilets blocked for nearly a year

Community tries hard to stamp out ‘skhothane’ behaviour

Food deliverymen claim they’re exploited

PE municipal workers on strike over back pay from ANC era

Court rules religion can’t be a defence for anti-gay hate speech

An apartheid-era crookery case will tell us what the limit is on our right to know

ANC members protest against ANC official over useless taps

ANC councillor’s office burnt down by people angry at shack demolitions

Shack-dwellers explain why they steal electricity

Khayelitsha residents destroy shack in xenophobic attack

UIF benefits now extended to a full year

‘Independent’ geologist equates sitting next to Cyril to sitting next to Hitler

Prasa is in ICU, but not dead yet

Zimbabweans having bank accounts ‘blocked without notice’

Police ‘laugh’ at domestic worker after attack by boss’ dogs

Pietermaritzburg woman feeds up to 150 gogos out of her own pocket

CT protest over police handling of lesbian murder

Patricia de Lille proposes affordable housing in Cape Town’s tallest skyscraper

Equal Education general secretary stepped down over allegations of sexual harassment

SA’s ‘murder capital’ will have to wait until 2023 for another police station

Parliament settles out of court with whistleblower

Cautious reasons for optimism over Cape Town drought

Living under an upturned boat

Woman who gave birth twice in one year can’t get birth certificate

New school already crammed beyond capacity

Western Cape government fails to explain security contract