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Buffalo City wants to recover R16-million in Covid housing funds

Officials and contractors need to pay up, council resolves

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News | 9 May 2025

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US pulls funding for South African medical research

NIH cancels subawards and routine renewals for South African grants

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News | 9 May 2025

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Families in Cape Town’s squalid backyards are still waiting for promised housing project

The Greater Retreat Housing project was announced in 2018

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News | 9 May 2025

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Nearly 750,000 driving licences are waiting to be printed - but at least the printing machine is working again

Department of Transport says staff will work extra hours to deal with the backlog

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News | 8 May 2025

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Judge’s secretary told a colleague that a “father figure” was abusing her, tribunal hears

Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge is accused of sexual harassment

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News | 8 May 2025

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Lottery workers march in Pretoria

Workers demand higher wages and changes to the way the National Lotteries Commission is run

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News | 8 May 2025

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Homes bulldozed in Roodepoort

City of Joburg says this is not an “eviction” but a “relocation”

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News | 8 May 2025

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We visited SASSA offices. Here’s what we found

People waiting in long queues told us their frustrations

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News | 7 May 2025

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Gauteng welfare organisations worried about late payments

Department of Social Development is improving but problems remain

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News | 7 May 2025

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Chaos in Flagstaff as municipality demolishes homes ‘sold’ by chief

Municipality says property is earmarked for development

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News | 7 May 2025

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Universal access to trains: Metrorail’s empty promises

New trains have spaces for wheelchairs but many stations and platforms are inaccessible

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News | 7 May 2025

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How US funding cuts are forcing sex workers to share HIV medicines

Sex workers say they are devastated following the closure of US-funded clinics

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News | 6 May 2025

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Families live in limbo on Cape Town’s railway lines

PRASA has been mum for months about relocation plans

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News | 6 May 2025

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Presumed guilty! Years in prison awaiting trial

Goodwood prison massively overcrowded, judge’s report finds

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News | 5 May 2025

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Joburg traders claim they are harassed by City

Traders were recently forced to close shop

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News | 5 May 2025

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US shuts down massive Lesotho development project

R6-billion American-funded Millennium Challenge Account is on the verge of collapse

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News | 30 April 2025