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Disgraced Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge, who faces possible impeachment for sexually harassing a junior secretary at court, is not going down without a fight.
Read groundup.org.za/article/judg... by Tania Broughton
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More than 400 households face eviction from a social housing estate built in 2018, after the company responsible for the estate abandoned the site, and some units were hijacked.
Read groundup.org.za/article/hund... by Kimberly Mutandiro
SANCO, church leaders and community leaders in Dunoon say they do not support an anti-immigrant march planned for this weekend in the township.
Read groundup.org.za/article/we-d... by Peter Luhanga
More than 1,000 immigrants, mostly Malawian, have fled Burnwood informal settlement after armed South African residents demanded they leave.
Read groundup.org.za/article/over... by Tsoanelo Sefoloko
A new Bill proposes a R2-million fine or two years’ in prison for anyone who allows another person to occupy land or a building without the owner’s permission.
Read groundup.org.za/article/draf... by ee-Anne Gaertner, Thuto Gabaphethe, Lulama Madyaka and Robert Krause
About 100 residents from Boret, N17 and Daggafontein informal settlements in Springs marched to factories in the Nuffield industrial area on Tuesday to demand jobs.
Read groundup.org.za/article/unem... by Kimberly Mutandiro
In the Garden Route town of George, 50km from Mossel Bay, community leaders are concerned about rising anti-immigrant sentiment and that violent attacks are imminent.
Read groundup.org.za/article/fait... by Zezethu Mtlomelo
The Gauteng Care Crisis Committee has warned that funding delays by the Gauteng Department of Social Development have put 542 jobs and 8,485 beneficiaries at risk.
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Dozens of TVET students who are unable to graduate because they have not yet completed their practical training protested at the higher education department’s headquarters in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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Selby Mbenenge says the JSC unlawfully overturned a tribunal finding and gave his accuser an unfair advantage
Parents of learners at Umkhumbane Secondary School in Chesterville, outside Durban, have called on the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education to fire 22 teachers who walked out when CCTV cameras were installed at the school.
Read groundup.org.za/article/came... by Tsoanelo Sefoloko
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Parents of learners at Umkhumbane Secondary School block the school, called for the teachers to be fired