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    Human Dignity

    We Need To Talk About How VAT Will Hurt The Poor

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    Last week, Malusi Gigaba, now the former minister of finance, presented a problematic budget. With national debt increasing (to over R2.5 trillion this year),...

    Can I Have A Straw With That?

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    We are currently facing a huge environmental crisis worldwide - the impacts of plastic on the environment are not only a problem in developing...

    DUT Strike: “We Do Want To Go Back To Work…”

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    On Tuesday, 27 February, the deputy minister for higher education and training  Buti Manamela met with the Durban University of Technology (DUT) management as...

    Palestinian Water Expert: SA Does Not Need Israeli Water Expertise

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    The water crisis in Cape Town is due to mismanagement, water expert and Palestinian citizen of Israel Mustafa Abu Raiya said in a Facebook...

    The Harsh Stigma of Sex Work In Glenwood, Durban

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    It's a scorching hot Tuesday afternoon and ladies are out on the streets working. It's a business day as usual for them and the...

    The VAT Increase is an Assault On The Poor And Lower-Income...

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    South Africa is a highly unequal society and a unilateral increase on the least progressive tax component – Value Added Tax (VAT) – is...

    Donations Pour in Following Devastating Fire in a Durban Children’s Home

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    Residents and different organisations poured into Harris Crescent with donations after the Edith Benson Babies Home in Durban was razed down by a devastating...

    Problems Persist For Gauteng Nursing Students

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    In January, nursing colleges in Gauteng made headlines when it emerged that there would be no intake of first-year bursary students because the department...

    Designer Accused Of Stealing UCT Student’s Greywater System Refutes Accusations

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    Many social media users have been in a state of outrage after industrial designer Retief Krige announced the creation a greywater storage bank to...

    Not just Cape Town – How SA faces a bleak water...

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    The Institute for Security Studies released a report on Monday detailing how the water crisis in South Africa is much bigger than Cape Town....

    5 myths about female genital mutilation debunked

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    February 6 marks International Day for Zero Tolerance on female genital mutilation (FGM). FGM, also referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting,...

    Who is Ahed Tamimi and why should South Africans care?

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    The trip I took to Palestine in December 2014 granted me the opportunity to better understand what life under Israeli occupation looked and felt...

    Marievale community back in court to stop the army’s unlawful evictions

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    Marievale residents will be back in court later this week after the High Court heard and heard an application to interdict evictions from a...

    “There is something sick in the area”

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    Mpho Tshele is a 61-year-old grandmother living in Snake Park, in the heart of Soweto. She looks after her 11-old-grandson, Koketso, who suffers from...

    Ex-Marievale residents’ shacks demolished while trying to build them

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    The Marievale community have been terrorised by SANDF soldiers since they were evicted from their homes in November last year. Now they are being...

    How women suffer the worst effects of malnutrition in South Africa

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    Poverty, inequality and the lack of access to land are issues that drive the continued malnutrition of women in South Africa, especially since women...

    New minimum wage for domestic workers to come into effect in...

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    The department of labour published a new regulation for minimum wages for domestic workers which come into effect on 1 January 2018. The labour...

    State capture and security problems are to blame for CT train...

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    Metrorail Cape Town has been plagued by many problems of late. On Monday, several trains were cancelled on the central line, leaving thousands of...

    Marievale community pickets against SANDF outside Gauteng military bases

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    On Wednesday, advocacy organisation Right2Know (R2K) Gauteng picketed outside three military bases in Gauteng against the evictions of Marievale community members who have been...

    They destroyed his home. Then his case was thrown out of...

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    On November 27 the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri) filed heads of argument in an application for leave to appeal the Durban...