Articles for Joseph Bracken

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Parliamentary committee calls for dissolution of Basketball SA board

Last year the department had to step in to rescue the International Basketball Federation’s U18 Afrobasket tournament hosted in South Africa

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News | 7 April 2025

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Legal battle to remove occupiers from land in Ballito

KwaDukuza Municipality says the land is earmarked for a school and clinic, but occupiers say they can’t move away from job opportunities

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News | 3 April 2025

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Thousands march to call for justice for raped child

Still no arrests after seven-year-old raped in Eastern Cape in October

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News | 1 April 2025

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Deaths spark protest over unsafe bridge outside Pinetown

Umngeni River claims two lives

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News | 28 March 2025

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PRASA can’t say when Durban’s Northern Coast line will open again

Agreement not yet reached between Transnet and PRASA

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Brief | 19 March 2025

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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