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Allegations of fraudulent payments amounting to billions at PRASA

A whistleblower report containing damning allegations is to be investigated

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News | 8 March 2025

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No street light tender in Kariega

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality officials commit to new tender at community meeting

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News | 7 March 2025

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How gun control can save women’s lives

Poor enforcement of gun control measures and increasing firearm ownership correlate directly with more women dying

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Opinion | 7 March 2025

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COSAS marches on education department and calls for minister to resign

Raft of demands handed over

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Brief | 7 March 2025

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Immigrant spaza shop owners battle to meet registration deadline

Problems with documents from Home Affairs affect shop owners’ ability to comply with President Ramaphosa’s announcement about food outlets

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News | 7 March 2025

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Renowned cartoonist to move to Cape Town to finish his life’s work

Mogorosi Motshumi is finishing two graphic books

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News | 7 March 2025

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Minister issues tender for 12-month temporary lottery licence

Critics say this favours Ithuba, the current operator

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News | 6 March 2025

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Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card

Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely

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News | 6 March 2025

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Elon Musk is trying to do business in Lesotho, the country Donald Trump says “nobody has ever heard of”

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News | 6 March 2025

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My five-hour wait for treatment at Mamelodi hospital

Gauteng Health MEC has said Mamelodi Regional Hospital meets National Health Insurance standards, but my experience was not good

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News | 6 March 2025

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Benoni pensioners ask City to scrap millions of rands of debt

City of Ekurhuleni says Actonville rental tenants collectively owe R33-million

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News | 6 March 2025

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My chaotic train journey from Johannesburg to Durban

“It is obvious PRASA was not prepared for this journey” says frustrated commuter after long-distance train breaks down several times

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News | 5 March 2025

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More than 20 dead and hundreds displaced in KZN floods

Sithembiso Mbutho died crossing the Mthwalume River. Residents have been pleading for the government to build a bridge

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News | 5 March 2025

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“We were told to stop everything immediately”: Lesotho HIV programmes collapse after USAID decision

Fear of a surge in new infections as antiretroviral medicines become harder to get

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News | 5 March 2025

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About 1.9-million people still need to swap gold cards as SASSA deadline looms

Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”

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News | 4 March 2025

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New plant discovered in Stellenbosch

“Miracle” iris emerges after decades under a pine plantation

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