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Constitutional challenge to ARTsolar’s gag order

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Court halts further work on luxury Stellenbosch mountain estate

Botsmaskop development stopped, pending a full court review

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News | 17 April 2025

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Inside the government’s confused response to the US funding crisis

The government could have used emergency allocations to finance defunded services but has failed to do so

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Companies should think twice before gagging journalists

Why the ARTsolar case is important

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GroundView | 17 April 2025

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Six distinctions but no ID: Top matriculant’s hope of becoming a doctor crushed

“My mother was a citizen, yet I cannot get an ID” says Emmanuel Ndlovu

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News | 17 April 2025

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Solar company changed its story just before gagging whistleblowers

Whistleblower alleges he was tricked into believing he was buying locally made material

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News | 17 April 2025

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New gecko species discovered in the Northern Cape

The Gravel Pygmy Gecko lives near Klein Pella in the Khâi-Ma Local Municipality

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News | 17 April 2025

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Protesters block major roads in Eastern Cape

Owners of small businesses complain about failures of the Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality

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News | 16 April 2025

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Future of Khoisan settlement in Grabouw hangs in the balance

Knoflokskraal has a restaurant, nursery, livestock farming and vegetable gardens, but little water

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News | 16 April 2025

Elections 2026

How is your municipality doing?

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

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Failing water systems will cost R400-billion to fix, says minister

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Cape Flats murders are on the rise

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What the latest tests say about beach water quality

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Whatever Trump says, whites are not doing badly in South Africa

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Informal businesses reduced to rubble: Excellent article

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It's very sad people are still suffering the same tragedy in 2026. May our government intervene, so… Read more

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The massacre in the Marikana informal settlement, where eight people were executed in cold blood, i… Read more

Suspended magistrate: Slow and incompetent judges

I have my own issues with how the Durban High Court operates, specifically with regard to missing f… Read more