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News

Informal traders quietly defy lockdown ban on door-to-door selling

Schoolkids now sell illegal cigarettes to help parents make ends meet

Crime

Woman alleges Grassy Park police involved in cigarette corruption

R140 for a packet of cigarettes in Soweto that aren’t ‘fake’

Strandfontein site for homeless to be closed, says councillor

Crime

Justice Edwin Cameron calls for release of prisoners due to Covid-19 fears

Africa

Zimbabweans ask to be repatriated, as lockdown makes surviving in SA even harder

Parent company moves to put Cash Paymaster Services into business rescue

Economists propose Ramaphosa should spend 10 times more to save Covid-hit SA

Life under lockdown: A view from the townships

Safety amped up at Ceres fruit packhouse as employee tests positive

Health

Four people test positive in Dunoon informal settlement, says councillor

Crime

How the lockdown is creating even more opportunities for corrupt cops

Motshekga urged to restore school feeding schemes during lockdown

Tim Noakes catches flak for ‘dangerously misleading’ Covid-19 interview

Crime

Cape Town officers shoot at Khayelitsha protesters over shack demolitions

Crime

Woman allegedly shot during shack demolition – lockdown or not

News

Dodgy off-the-shelf companies cash in on Lottery millions

Come on SA, let’s make masks. They help a lot, and here’s how to do it

City of Cape Town and national government bicker over housing of refugees

From unsafe swabs to Gaddafi and Obama, beware these fake claims about Covid-19

How companies price-gouging the public will be made to pay … up to R1m

‘I’ve lost six months of my income,’ says musician during Covid-19

How TB machines will ramp up Covid-19 testing, but at ‘double the price’ of TB