South Africa|Gauteng|Johannesburg

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Thousands of workers protest against Eskomā€™s 0% pay rise

Unions stage lunchtime picket outside Megawatt Park to demand wage increases

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News | 14 June 2018

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18-year-old informal miner mourns his dead friend

Itā€™s hard to go underground, but life must go on, says Tawanda

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Feature | 14 June 2018

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What are the limits of our right to know? An apartheid-era crookery case will provide the answer

The South African History Archive is still trying to get information from the Reserve Bank on Vito Palazzolo, Johann Blaauw and Robert Oliver Hill

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News | 14 June 2018

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Victory for Braamfontein cleaners after two-week strike

Workers say outsourcing company was trying to retrench older cleaners

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News | 13 June 2018

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Still no solution for Wembley Stadium families

Families living in tents one year after evictions

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News | 11 June 2018

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Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late

Residents say cooking accident started blaze

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News | 7 June 2018

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Peopleā€™s Health Movement withdraws from NEHAWU

Anger at failure of union to ā€œdistance itselfā€ from hospital protests that endangered patient lives

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Brief | 1 June 2018

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Land occupiers set building alight with family inside

ā€œAll I could hear was frantic screamingā€ says employee of Cremona Cheese Factory

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News | 1 June 2018

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Mayhem at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital as workers demand performance bonuses

Hospital staff were intimidated and patients had to be locked inside for their safety

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News | 31 May 2018

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We are living in a pigsty, says ward councillor

Informal dumps spread in Tshepisong West as garbage goes uncollected

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Brief | 17 May 2018

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Cheese factory has to secure its property or risk losing it

EbuMnandini residents interdicted from occupying Cremona land until September

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News | 12 May 2018

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Miners protest for better safety following Sibanye Stillwater deaths

Unions say there have been 33 fatalities so far in 2018

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News | 11 May 2018

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Protesters call for head of UNAIDS to go

Michel SidibĆ© apologises to AIDS activists but they say itā€™s not good enough

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News | 10 May 2018

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Tembisa residents meet councillors to discuss reblocking concerns

Speaker of Ekurhuleni Council to visit Vusimuzi to see conditions

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Brief | 3 May 2018

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Reblocking unsettles Tembisa residents

Some community members says they were not aware of the hardship it would involve

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News | 18 April 2018

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Thembelihle on edge ahead of release of dolomite report

Residents want to know: will JHB municipality relocate or develop the informal settlement

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News | 12 April 2018