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PRASA’s hiring and firing of CEO has cost R15-million and counting

Zolani Matthews has been given the boot again, this time for “operational reasons”

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News | 17 August 2024

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Fired security guards have been sleeping outside health department in Johannesburg for four months

They say they are owed money and want the department to intervene with their former employers

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News | 16 August 2024

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Pre-dawn operation moves homeless people off Cape Town’s streets

City is offering “Safe Space” shelters but some people don’t want to go there

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News | 16 August 2024

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Protesting residents shot outside KZN ward councillor’s house

Injured protestor said he was shot by one of councillor’s bodyguards

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News | 16 August 2024

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Man suspected of raping a disabled child is at large after police bungle arrest

Mother says Elliot police have failed her

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News | 16 August 2024

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Stop new mining on West Coast, say fishers

“We depend on the ocean”

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News | 16 August 2024

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Homeless people removed from Cape Town’s city centre

“We want everybody to have dignified accommodation,” says ward councillor

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News | 15 August 2024

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Bail denied for Cape Town attorney charged with attempted murder

Court rules attorney Rael Kassel is a flight risk

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Brief | 15 August 2024

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Dodgy multi-million rand Rio Olympics grant under investigation

Here are the names of the officials with whom the Lottery will no longer do business

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News | 15 August 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

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Charts | 16 January 2026

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

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Charts | 19 December 2025

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