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How the former Lottery board chair paid for his R6.3-million Rolls Royce

Court freezes Alfred Nevhutanda’s luxury car and property

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News | 18 October 2023

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Limpopo hawkers evicted to make way for road repairs

These Elim vendors pay licence fees but they have not been helped to find an alternative trading site

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News | 18 October 2023

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Millions spent but 7 years later still no water for Eastern Cape villagers

Water project for Libode started in 2016

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News | 18 October 2023

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Gift of the Givers is on the ground in Gaza

Imtiaz Sooliman calls for negotiations and compromise. “The only way to solve the problem is to do what is just.”

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News | 17 October 2023

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Lawyers fed-up with shambles in Master’s Offices

“We’ve been waiting for files for years”

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News | 17 October 2023

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Cape Flats fishermen still catching carp despite City health warning

The municipality has suspended fishing at Zeekoevlei due to high heavy metal levels, but people are still fishing in the Lotus River canal

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News | 17 October 2023

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This is how I try to survive crime in Philippi

Living in Samora Machel, Cape Town, you hear gunshots any time of the day

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News | 17 October 2023

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Protesters from 68 Eastern Cape villages converge in Bhisho to demand clean water

Representatives march to the provincial office of COGTA under the banner of the Inyanda National Land Movement

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News | 16 October 2023

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African states urged to lobby International Criminal Court on Gaza

Southern African Litigation Centre says reports of war crimes must be probed

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News | 16 October 2023

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Court error causes years of delay in prisoner’s appeal

Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services received 2,244 complaints from prisoners appealing their sentences. KZN accounted for nearly half of these.

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News | 16 October 2023

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Court showdown over Cape Flats evictions

“We are not here because we want to be here. We are here because we need homes.”

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News | 16 October 2023

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March in Cape Town in support of Gaza as Israel orders evacuation

Official death toll rises to 3,000 - over 1,200 Israelis and about 1,800 Palestinians - as violence escalates

Text by Matthew Hirsch and Nathan Geffen. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 13 October 2023

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eThekwini land occupiers claim officials attacked them without warning

The municipality claims it faced violent resistance when it was carrying out shack demolitions

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News | 13 October 2023

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Every Saturday this small shack turns into a vibrant children’s book club

Philippi resident Sindeka Mandoyi started the Chosi-chosi book club in 2019 to share her passion for reading

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News | 13 October 2023

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Almost 4,000 households still to be moved off Cape Town railway land

While plans for temporary relocation of 891 households occupying the Central Line are making progress, thousands of households remain on the railway

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News | 12 October 2023

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Protest after Joburg suburb without tap water for over 50 days

Frustrated South Hills residents blocked main roads and burnt tyres

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News | 12 October 2023