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Post office critical but stable!

"The public can still expect to receive their letter posts, courier packages"

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Families devastated as storm hammers Eastern Cape village — again

More than 20 families have been left counting their losses after a heavy storm tore through a village in Xesi (formerly Middledrift), leaving homes and businesses in ruins and disrupting the electricity supply. The devastating storm — the second to hit Kwa-Saki village in three years — struck at about 6pm on Sunday, according to villagers.

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ActionSA says it will introduce a 'basic income stimulus' — but won't scrap social grants

Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA says that if elected it will not scrap government social grants as it introduces a “universal basic income stimulus” of R790 a month, rising to more than R1,600 in the third year.

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Party - Sassa lost R50m in two years!

This involves more than 700 cases and 40 Sassa officials.

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Tax relief for single moms is a necessity

Rise Mzansi is advancing and advocating for a tax relief regime for single mothers to ease the burden of care placed on them.

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LISTEN | DA-run Western Cape is better than ANC provinces: Alan Winde

Western Cape premier Alan Winde has criticised the ANC and boasted about his DA-led province’s achievements “where ANC had failed” — from employment and education to policing and crime.

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Living with disability does get easier — with the right resources and a racquet in hand

Wheelchair user Ronewa Mudzanani is starting an NGO to cater for underprivileged disabled children

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LISTEN | DA-run Western Cape is better than ANC provinces: Alan Winde

Western Cape premier Alan Winde has criticised the ANC and boasted about his DA-led province’s achievements “where ANC had failed” — from employment and education, to policing and crime.

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More than 80,000 needy Eastern Cape girls to get free sanitary towels

More than 80,000 Eastern Cape girls from poor backgrounds are to receive free sanitary towels, courtesy of the department of social development.Social development MEC Bukiwe Fanta announced on Tuesday that the department had begun the rollout of “sanitary dignity packs”, with one pack designed to last a girl the full school year.

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Social development supplying thousands of sanitary packs to East Cape pupils

The Eastern Cape social development department has started distributing sanitary dignity packs to almost 84,000 underprivileged pupils in a multimillion-rand project set to continue for the duration of the financial year.

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