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Eight years without running water in eThekwini

Water trucks come to villages on the municipality’s rural outskirts twice a month

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Municipality demands contractor pay for delays to Limpopo stadium

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Welfare organisations unpaid for six months by Gauteng government

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News | 25 September 2024

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Press Ombudsman orders TimesLIVE to give correct account of facts

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Law | 25 September 2024

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Villagers have had no tap water for 15 years, but they live 3km from a dam

The Maluti-a-Phofung municipality is intermittently supplying Jwala-Boholo and Qoqolosing villages with water trucks

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Strand residents worried about ‘out of hand’ illegal dumping

City says it currently manages about 2.1-million tonnes of waste annually across the metro

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News | 25 September 2024

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Pretoria township devastated by fire

800 homes destroyed

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News | 23 September 2024

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Visually impaired recyclers help the planet

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Photo Essay | 23 September 2024

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Using carbon dating to stop elephant and rhino poaching

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Science | 23 September 2024

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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Cape Flats murders are on the rise

Some areas have improved, but the overall picture is grim

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What the latest tests say about beach water quality in Durban and Cape Town

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

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