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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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Brief | 12 June 2025

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Court battle looms over lottery licence

Losing bidder Lekalinga has launched a court application to probe Minister Parks Tau’s decision to award the fourth lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings

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Law | 12 June 2025

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Four children shot dead in three weeks in Samora Machel

All the victims were in school uniform when they were gunned down

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Brief | 12 June 2025

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Pit toilets from the 1980s are still in use at this Eastern Cape school

Parents at Bhetshwana Primary, which has 200 learners, say the school has begged the education department for toilets for decades

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Brief | 12 June 2025

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Benoni pensioners take to the streets

Fix our flats, protesters tell municipality

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Brief | 12 June 2025

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Social grants go unpaid as beneficiaries struggle with SASSA’s system

Activists say they get dozens of complaints weekly about the online verification process

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News | 12 June 2025

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Lottery official’s pension frozen by Special Tribunal

Sanele Dlamini had been found guilty of gross misconduct by the NLC

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Law | 12 June 2025

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Fourth man dies after xenophobic attacks in Addo

Still no arrests after mob displaces hundreds of immigrant families

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Brief | 11 June 2025

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New border control plan could harm asylum seekers, say critics

The One-Stop Border Post Bill aims to speed up trade and travel, but critics say protection for immigrants is inadequate

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News | 11 June 2025

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Rotten rat park gets rescued

Dunoon children get a safe playground at last

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Brief | 11 June 2025

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Railway line theft trial delayed by state witness’s illness

Former PRASA regional manager and Cape Town businessman won’t be back in the dock for more than a month

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Brief | 10 June 2025

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“Where is our water?” protesters ask mayor

Nquthu in KwaZulu-Natal shut down by protest

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Brief | 10 June 2025

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Road Accident Fund is wasting millions on “chaotic” court cases

Lawyers aren’t sent to court, resulting in default judgments

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Law | 10 June 2025

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South African law is failing gig workers

These workers don’t get paid leave and they can be dismissed arbitrarily

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Opinion | 10 June 2025

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No money to upgrade Cape Town’s rundown hostels

We visited hostels in Gugulethu which were overcrowded and falling apart

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