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Water tankers everywhere in Joburg, yet surprisingly hard to find

Johannesburg deploys dozens of tankers daily during outages. We tried to find them

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Man promised RDP home left to live for seven years in collapsing mud house

Only the foundation has been dug for Anele Dyosane’s house

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Brief | 26 June 2026

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Lesotho seeks compensation and economic support from South Africa

Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices

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News | 26 June 2026

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Voter registration at 64%, four months before elections

Proportion of eligible voters who are registered has not changed since 2021

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Charts | 26 June 2026

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March and March has promised peace on 30 June — KZN Premier

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and her husband speak at immigration summit alongside diplomats

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Brief | 25 June 2026

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Stay within the law, MP tells anti-immigrant protesters

Parliamentary committees brief media ahead of 30 June “deadline”

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GroundUp Games

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Mayfair immigrants put their faith in South Africa’s police to protect them

Gauteng Commissioner says SAPS will act against anyone inciting violence

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Brief | 25 June 2026

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Important advance in TB treatment

South African researchers publish trial results in world’s leading medical journal

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News | 25 June 2026

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Lottery budgets nearly a quarter of a billion rand for legal fees

This is the cost of rooting out corruption, Commissioner Jodi Scholtz tells Parliament

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News | 25 June 2026

Elections 2026

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We are doing in depth reports on municipalities across the country ahead of the 2026 local elections.

Elections 2026

Photo Essays

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In photos: Registration for elections 2026 gets off to a slow start

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Immigrant families bused out of Overberg after xenophobic violence

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Charts

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Constitutional Court is far too slow

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1 in 7 “vocational matric” students graduate on time. Why?

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Government spending has stagnated since covid

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More than 57,000 people deported from South Africa last year

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Features

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The long road to the market for Lesotho’s wool farmers

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The mountain men behind Lesotho’s wool wealth

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Blaming immigrants for our problems is a fool’s game

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SANEF should do better than this

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