{
  "id": 178539,
  "title": "Advocate Refilwe Manaka",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/advocate-refilwe-manaka",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-05T14:40:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mail and Guardian",
    "slug": "mail-and-guardian",
    "url": "https://mg.co.za/2026-08-05-advocate-refilwe-manaka/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "By day, Advocate Refilwe Manaka drafts contracts that shape housing developments. Beyond the office, she is working to build something less tangible but equally important: hope for communities too often left behind. At 32, Manaka balances her role as a legal specialist in contracts at the Johannesburg Social Housing Company (Joshco) with leading the Manaka Foundation, a non-profit she founded to…",
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}