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  "id": 16319702,
  "title": "South Africa’s long commute: how distance keeps workers poor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/south-africas-long-commute-how-distance-keeps-workers-poor",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-24T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/thepost/opinion/2026-10-24-south-africas-long-commute-how-distance-keeps-workers-poor/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For millions of South Africans, the daily journey to work is costly, unsafe and increasingly long. The country’s housing and transport choices have failed to undo the spatial inequalities created by apartheid.",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/anrich-nortje-out-of-third-south-africa-vs-australia-test-with-groin",
        "published": "2026-10-24T11:16:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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