Articles for Joseph Bracken

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Hundreds gather to remember children killed in shack blaze

A fire in Shaka’s Head near KwaDukuza killed five people on 28 February

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Brief | 9 March 2026

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Shacks demolished while eviction case drags on for Durban’s Piedmont Park

The municipality says it will only be able to provide alternative accommodation in 2027

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Brief | 9 March 2026

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A R24-million sports centre and nowhere to train

Kokstad’s pool is empty and the soccer field is too hard

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News | 4 March 2026

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Municipality changes tune after video shows Ensure guards beating man

For months, the Denis Hurley Centre has been alerting officials to complaints about the security company

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News | 23 February 2026

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More than R36-million in lottery money has been spent on this old age home in nine years. But it is still not ready

The home in eDumbe, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, is one of several projects under investigation by the SIU

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News | 17 February 2026

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Unfinished lottery-funded old age home in Mpumalanga is being looted

But National Lotteries Commission says it can’t pay for security

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News | 13 February 2026

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KZN flood victims stuck in emergency housing, three years later

Hundreds of families are living in apartment buildings leased by the City of eThekwini

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News | 11 February 2026

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Corruption-riddled Lottery projects incomplete despite promised R65-million

After three years of no progress, their fate is still to be decided according to the NLC

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News | 9 February 2026

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Families wait for houses, two months after floods

Hundreds of homes were damaged by floods in uMshwati in November

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News | 23 January 2026