Articles for Barbara October

Vrygrond woman’s struggle to keep daycare centre open

Parents can’t afford to fund the facility with fees but an NGO is helping

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News | 9 June 2017

Authorities remove community primary school

Joe Slovo Park parents had started a makeshift school for 400 learners. Education department sayschildren will be accommodated elsewhere.

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Brief | 8 June 2017

Social grants company appoints “independent ombudsman”

Advocate Neville Melville says communication with beneficiaries remains “a huge problem”

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News | 6 June 2017

Home based carers want better work conditions

New Crossroads health workers fear victimisation for “speaking out”

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News | 30 May 2017

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

Allan Gray commits to putting pressure on Net1

Grant recipients claim deductions being made for policies they’ve no knowledge of

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News | 19 May 2017

SASSA has two weeks to show plan to phase out service provider CPS

“CEO says everything is going to plan, but where is this plan?”

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News | 16 May 2017

Woodstock families face eviction

Tenants accuse landlord of neglecting property

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News | 15 May 2017

SASSA says it’s on track to take over payment of social grants in 2018

Agency will appeal Gauteng High Court judgment in favour of Net1

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News | 10 May 2017

Net1 wins case to allow deductions on social grant accounts

High Court says SASSA beneficiaries should be allowed to choose how they use their Grindrod bank accounts

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Law | 9 May 2017

Australian company sues SA environmental lawyers for defamation

Mining company accused of damaging West Coast is claiming over R1 million in damages from activists

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Law | 8 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

Dlamini is to blame for SASSA crisis, says Themba Godi

But Parliament could have done more, says Scopa chair

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News | 11 April 2017

Relief as social grants paid out

But deductions continue, say beneficiaries

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News | 4 April 2017

Young Khayelitsha musicians jazz with American pianist Nat Adderley Jr

“I love being part of the band because it keeps me busy as a teenager.”

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News | 4 April 2017

Redhill land claimant compensated nearly 20 years later

“I was hoping we’d get the land, but what can we do? We must let go.”

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News | 3 April 2017