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How these men risk their lives to steal coal every day from goods trains

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The village where women can’t afford to report rape

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Homeless people ask judge to find Dan Plato and JP Smith in contempt of court

Children protest against gang violence after learners killed in Elsie’s River

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Women-only train carriage proposal derailed

Completed in 2014, this police station has never been used

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Students arrested after security guard nearly killed in attack

Mkhwebane’s flawed report on Prasa: Is she incompetent or intentionally failing?

‘The list of Mugabe’s crimes is endless’

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Khayelitsha residents dig ‘grave’ for man accused of killing Uyinene Mrwetyana

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Councillor escapes death through top-floor window after flat petrol-bombed

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Court battles continue for prisoner to get access to laptop for studying

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Rising sea levels already causing problems for Cape Town

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Small farmers worried they will not be compensated for ‘losses’ due to Duzi river spill

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Still no police station five years after Khayelitsha commission of inquiry into policing

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Burn victims unable to get life-saving treatment because people aren’t donating skin

Courts

JSC in spotlight for slow adjudication of complaints against two judges

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Limpopo villagers to have a tar road replace their houses, and they’re getting nothing

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Army protects Eskom workers removing illegal power in Khayelitsha

Tensions between communities reach ‘boiling point’ over electricity in Port Elizabeth

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Court upholds right of farm residents to bury their loved ones

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How neighbourhood watch women fight crime in SA’s roughest hot spots

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How police get away with rape because sex work is illegal – report

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Vigilante killings are spiking in Port Elizabeth

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The R20m Credo Mutwa Lottery-funded library with empty shelves

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Conflicts of interest and incomplete projects: How Lottery money is being spent

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Rastafarians selling dagga on the roadside say they are ‘tired of hiding’

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Masiphumelele fire leaves over 1,000 homeless

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Somalian shops in Khayelitsha looted after shooting

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Man set alight in scuffle over municipal tender

Social development department didn’t know it had offices in Alexandra

Criminalising school disruptions would help, says Panyaza Lesufi

Students lay charges of fraud against NSFAS

Health

Emergency workers sit around all day because ambulances are broken

Vehicles torched as Philippi East residents demand toilets

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Victory for children’s rights in the Western Cape

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Extinction Rebellion comes to SA

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Two years after fire, Hout Bay residents are crammed in disused buildings

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Facebook post sparks row over human remains in Green Point

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F-bomb businessman ordered to pay R30k for unfair dismissal still hasn’t paid

Gogo has battled for 24 years to fix her ID, and still can’t get her pension

Small builders demand to know how much RDP houses in PE cost municipality

Five mining groups ask court to approve R5bn silicosis settlement case

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How expropriation without compensation works in Alexandra

Residents from dark township march through well-lit Rondebosch to demand better lighting

Their councillor was charged with murder. Now Umlazi voters want a by-election

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Hospital reports foreign residents to Home Affairs when they come for treatment

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Watsons continue with talks this week about their wind farm

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Woman arrested in Sea Point while taking selfies gets job

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Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a tree for almost a year

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Much-needed rain brings flooding to Cape Town

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Lottery admits it’s investigating the projects it once defended

A loan shark has her ID, so she couldn’t vote today

Housing activists occupy Green Point bowling club

Huge shack demolition takes place in Johannesburg

Courts

Judge vs judge as one accuses the other of ‘racism’, ‘hate speech’

Speed bump protest brings Durban township to standstill

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Former Sasol Coal miners claim more than R80m for coal-related illnesses

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Train arson suspect sent for psychiatric assessment

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Three judges reported to Judicial Service Commission

Housing list sparks protests in East London

Pupils from school for the blind block roads in angry protest

Angry pupils shut down their school because they want to learn physics

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RDP house not finished after seven years

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Soweto commuters in limbo while rival taxi associations quarrel over routes

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Hundreds arrested in Prasa cable theft crackdown

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Housing activist killed in unlawfully occupied Cape Town building

Fix our gravel roads or we won’t vote, community tells mayor

Angry coloured residents burn down Alra Park police station in housing protest

Refugee children turned away by Cape schools

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Nothing this asylum seeker seems to do can get home affairs to spell his name right

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Pietermaritzburg community gripped by fear as witnesses and police are murdered

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Protesters extort cash and goods from immigrant shopkeepers, or burn them down

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Report calls for golf courses and bowling greens to be used for low-cost housing

Township takes to the streets after rumour its neighbouring township will get electricity first