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You have until 8 May to comment on Cape Town’s new homeless plan

The City plans to open a new 300-bed Safe Space facility in Green Point

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News | 11 April 2023

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Hero gardener saves man from burning car

John Manda pulled elderly man from a car in Rooiels

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News | 11 April 2023

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Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana arrested in Tanzania

The couple had several passports in their possession with different names

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News | 8 April 2023

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I acted in self-defence, law enforcement officer who shot dead a homeless man tells court

State’s witness testified that he was the one having an argument with officers that morning and that the deceased Dumisani Joxo had been defending him.

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News | 6 April 2023

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“Post office is crumbling under the pressure” says social grant activist

This comes as millions of gold SASSA cards will be expiring soon

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News | 6 April 2023

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Children are dying from izinyoka electricity while Tongaat families wait to be housed

Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project

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News | 6 April 2023

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New vaccine will save thousands of children from dying of pneumonia

Trial of vaccine to prevent RSV was led by Wits vaccinologist Shabir Madhi and showed 82% efficacy

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News | 6 April 2023

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Bid to seize ANC assets after failure to pay R102-million bill

KwaZulu-Natal marketing company has still not been paid for election posters and banners provided four years ago

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News | 5 April 2023

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Human waste litters the ground in Mountain View - and City of Tshwane has no plans to fix it anytime soon

The City says families living there will be moved when it finds land

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News | 5 April 2023

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Parliamentary briefing on Thabo Bester postponed after G4S no-show

“Accountability to Parliament is not optional,” says committee chair

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News | 4 April 2023

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Living conditions at “transit camp” in eThekwini Municipality are inhumane, say residents

Camp was intended as temporary housing but 11 years later, many families are still there

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News | 4 April 2023

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Special Investigating Unit to ask President Ramaphosa to extend its Lottery probe

SIU wants to probe procurement by the National Lotteries Commission

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News | 3 April 2023

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Is PRASA using lawyers unlawfully?

Rail agency uses firm not on its legal panel despite warnings by National Treasury

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News | 3 April 2023

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Social workers attacked and under severe strain in Cape Town townships

Western Cape will hire an extra 247 social workers for the coming financial year

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News | 3 April 2023

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Calls mount for unused military and state land to be released for housing

Housing Development Agency slammed for inaction

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News | 31 March 2023

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Swartland law enforcement demolish shacks on land earmarked for housing development

About 250 people attempted to occupy land reserved for the De Hoop housing development in Malmesbury

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News | 31 March 2023