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Report shows how lenders prey on social grant recipients – News from GroundUp

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Report shows how lenders prey on social grant recipients: Low-risk loans but high interest rates
Source: GroundUp News.

What’s the limit for free speech? Concourt to hear Qwelane case: Civil society organisations have made court submissions on both sides of the debate
Source: GroundUp News.

Wildfires leave two dead, 100 homes in ashes: Four villages suffer losses in Nyandeni Municipality, Eastern Cape
Source: GroundUp News.

Shack owner sent away after boy is electrocuted by izinyoka connection: Despatch residents send delegation to municipal offices to demand electricity
Source: GroundUp News.

700 residents have a litre of water per day in Eastern Cape village: “We are pleading with anyone who can assist us … before we all die”
Source: GroundUp News.

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