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Thabo Bester delays trial with six court cases

Prison escape trial, originally set down for February 2025, postponed to July 2026

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News | 5 December 2025

Eastern Cape villagers finally get water, but only for a few days

Water scheme was restored, but two villages are back to having no water

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News | 5 December 2025

Cape Town city council approves plan to sell Woodstock Hospital

Residential development planned, including affordable housing

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News | 4 December 2025

Payments to sick miners in Lesotho resume after fraud scare

Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases reports fraud of R1.4-million

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News | 4 December 2025

Nkandla villagers demand a police station

Mfongosi Satellite Police Station has been abandoned

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News | 4 December 2025

We rode Metrorail in Cape Town to see if it has improved

While there are still problems, the service is much more reliable than a few years ago. And it’s much cheaper than any other commuter transport.

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News | 3 December 2025

Eskom starts environmental assessment for a third nuclear power station

Thyspunt in the Eastern Cape and Bantamsklip in the Overberg are proposed sites

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News | 2 December 2025

Waste reclaimers demand plan as Joburg’s landfills fill up

They also want to be included in the City’s solutions. But there are obstacles.

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News | 2 December 2025

Gag order against Open Secrets lifted

Case brought by Integrated Convoy Protection, which sells armoured vehicles to UAE, dismissed

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News | 27 November 2025

Release of useful health statistics: 2015 to 2025

The National Health Laboratory Service has provided HIV, TB, syphilis and cholesterol data

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News | 27 November 2025

EThekwini blames Shembe Church for delays in housing project

Burlington development has been stuck since 2022

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News | 27 November 2025

Fewer than half of Elim’s boreholes work and municipal water tankers are a rare sight

Private water sellers are filling the gap, but the municipality says they are acting against the law

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News | 27 November 2025

Eastern Cape families go to court over water

Despite a court order, the Amathole District Municipality has not provided water to Centane villages, they say

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News | 26 November 2025

SAPS won’t return to Telkom Towers despite millions spent

The complex was evacuated in February 2024 amid safety concerns

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News | 26 November 2025

Lesotho and South African organisations at loggerheads after USAID funding cuts

The Mosepele Foundation Development Forum has accused Mothers2Mothers South Africa of withholding funds but the latter says it has no choice

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News | 26 November 2025

“Sink hole” families to be moved

Dozens of Khayelitsha families have been living above a collapsing sewer pipe

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News | 26 November 2025