Articles for Marecia Damons
MPs grill Social Development over grant payments
“If the same findings are coming through, how effective are these enforcement powers of the Auditor-General?”
News | 12 October 2023
Book extract: How Thabo Bester murdered Nomfundo Tyhulu
The Thabo Bester Story is on sale today
By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn
News | 11 October 2023
Parliament unimpressed by NSFAS’s turnaround plan
Student funding scheme given seven working days to answer portfolio committee’s questions
News | 5 October 2023
Department of Health in last-minute bid to avoid stand-off with nurses over uniforms
Union says nurses will work in their own clothes if uniform allowance is not sorted out
News | 3 October 2023
Cape Town backyard dwellers doorstop housing officials at Civic Centre
“People die waiting for a house,” says backyarder from Hanover Park
Brief | 28 September 2023
Latest census results to be announced 10 October
Stats SA blames Covid for long delay in completing fourth national enumeration since democracy
Brief | 27 September 2023
NSFAS and Blade Nzimande snub Parliament hearing on student funding failures
The portfolio committee will issue a summons if NSFAS and the minister fail to attend the next meeting
News | 20 September 2023
Officer testifies why he shot homeless man
“I believed they were going to injure me, take my gun and shoot me”
News | 14 September 2023
“I was fearing for my life” officer tells court during homeless murder trial
Her colleague is on trial after Dumisani Joxo was shot and killed in 2022
News | 12 September 2023