Articles for Joseph Bracken

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Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card

Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely

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News | 6 March 2025

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More than 20 dead and hundreds displaced in KZN floods

Sithembiso Mbutho died crossing the Mthwalume River. Residents have been pleading for the government to build a bridge

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News | 5 March 2025

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Forestry Department awarded R140-million tender to dodgy security company

Investigation finds the company submitted a fraudulent document in its bid but got the contract

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News | 3 March 2025

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Ukrainians protest outside Russian Embassy

“Arbitrary detentions of civilians, torture and rape are widespread” says protestor

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News | 24 February 2025

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Sports organisation hides how R17-million Lottery funding was used

SIU is probing grants paid to Physical Education Institute of South Africa

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News | 20 December 2024

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Riding Cape Town’s Southern Line

Metrorail has improved from its worst days but some problems still need to be fixed

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News | 20 December 2024

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Minister moves to appoint National Gambling Board members after ten years

Board positions have been vacant since 2014

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News | 4 December 2024

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Battle over land in KwaZulu-Natal

Since 2022, people have been trying to occupy land in Rocky Ridge in KwaDukuza

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Feature | 5 November 2024

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Government-funded organisations getting a rough deal, Parliament told

Women’s shelters anxious about being shut down

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Brief | 31 October 2024

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Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Welfare organisations unpaid for six months by Gauteng government

This is despite having signed agreements with the provincial Department of Social Development

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News | 25 September 2024

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eThekwini Municipality mum on investigation into company selling water illegally

Municipality pledges to buy 100 water trucks to end its need to hire them

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Brief | 17 September 2024

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Government stepped in at eleventh hour to save basketball tournament

The tournament, which started later than scheduled, is underway in Pretoria and ends on Saturday

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News | 11 September 2024

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Durban commuters stranded while PRASA and Transnet haggle over repairs

KwaMashu and North Coast lines not operational

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Brief | 6 September 2024

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The three businessmen and the Gauteng social development department’s millions

The department says the Hawks are investigating the sustainable livelihoods programme but will not provide details

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News | 4 September 2024

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African championships get underway despite Basketball South Africa’s bungling

Tournament delayed by late arrival of teams

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News | 3 September 2024