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Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered – News from GroundUp

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Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered: Violence on border of iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Park linked to fears of mass retrenchments
Source: GroundUp News.

Court order has big implications for land expropriation: Municipality must return land to 84-year-old pensioner because it didn’t obtain his consent, suggesting that parts of the Expropriation Act are unconstitutional
Source: GroundUp News.

These domestic workers lost their jobs during lockdown. Now they have to beg on the streets with their babies: When a car stops, all the women compete to get there first
Source: GroundUp News.

Butterworth water protests politically motivated says municipality: “Officials live in East London … When they take a bath they spend an hour because they have enough water” responds protester
Source: GroundUp News.

Rural Eastern Cape school, built with donations, battles to survive: Provincial education department blames contractor and dwindling budget for dilapidated state
Source: GroundUp News.

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