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These families have no toilets, but sewage from other people’s toilets flows past their homes

Riverside informal settlement is built on a floodplain, says City of Cape Town, so services can’t be provided

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News | 18 June 2025

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Out of the black and into the red – Theewaterskloof municipality’s rapid decline

Rot set in straight after the 2021 local government elections

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Feature | 18 June 2025

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Survivor tells how trapped miners ate human flesh and cockroaches to survive

Patrick Ntsokolo hopes to testify before the Human Rights Commission probe into the Stilfontein tragedy

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Feature | 18 June 2025

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Charity “icon” may have used donor money for beauty treatments, judge says

Court finds Mara Glennie may have misappropriated R2-million

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Law | 18 June 2025

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Judge warns Thabo Bester and co-accused not to delay proceedings

Nandipha Magudumana’s father has still not appointed a lawyer since January

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News | 17 June 2025

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Youth Day march against gangs in Johannesburg

Westbury residents call on gangs to make peace

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Brief | 17 June 2025

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Youngsters own the street for Youth Day

Sydney Street in Mowbray was cordoned off for children to play

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Photo Essay | 17 June 2025

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Home Affairs has left a quarter of a million people waiting years for birth certificates

The Children’s Institute has taken government to court over its late birth registration backlog

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Law | 17 June 2025

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Sewage, garbage, dirty water: Theewaterskloof is in a mess after years of bad management

But the new municipal manager hopes to get things back on track

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Feature | 17 June 2025

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Clinic renovation stalled because health department hasn’t paid contractor

Patients are being treated at old church buildings because the clinic has been closed since 2022 for renovations

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News | 17 June 2025

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Cape Town mothers in silent march for Gaza

Israel has blocked food from entering Gaza and killed more than 200 people at distribution points

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Brief | 14 June 2025

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New crèches may have to close because of late payments by education department

Subsidies still not being paid on time in KwaZulu-Natal

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News | 13 June 2025

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Mass lay-offs at Lesotho garment factories as US tariffs bite

After the Trump administration’s threat of 50% import duty on Lesotho, orders have dried up and production lines have shut down

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News | 13 June 2025

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There are more than 20,000 unfinished RDP houses in the Free State

One couple has been waiting 14 years for their house to be built

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Brief | 13 June 2025

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Three-day protest in Soweto over power outages

On top of scheduled “load reduction” stolen cables left Meadowlands in the dark for days

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Brief | 12 June 2025

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Document goes missing in police torture case

Magistrate reprimands lawyers

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