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Wreck of MV Ultra Galaxy confirmed as source of West Coast oil spill

Clean-up continues and conservationist is impressed with the response

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News | 7 February 2025

Navy ammunition depot in Simon’s Town is a fire hazard

Defence force is violating the law

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News | 7 February 2025

Pretoria could lose 120 beds for people in desperate need of care

Business rescue plan for social housing company will sell off state-funded special needs facilities

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News | 7 February 2025

125-year-old Eastern Cape hospital in desperate need of renovations

Protesters march to Greenville Hospital near Bizana to complain about conditions

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News | 6 February 2025

Lottery paid R500,000 to company to probe computer breach that never happened

Forensic auditors found several red flags in the payment to Neo Solutions

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News | 6 February 2025

Leaked ANC document calls for basic income grant in 2025

But official statement after lekgotla makes no mention of it

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News | 5 February 2025

Anger over failure of community-owned macadamia nut farm

Government-funded Ncera farm has battled drought and price fluctuations

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News | 5 February 2025

Photo exhibition: Remembering the fishers of Kalk Bay

“The Sea is in our Blood” photo exhibition outside the Olympia Cafe

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News | 5 February 2025

Former Lottery executive loses court bid to access his pension

Judge upholds ruling in favour of Special Investigating Unit

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News | 4 February 2025

No money to fix broken clinic, says health department

Patients say no maintenance has been done on Colchester’s health facility since 2020

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News | 4 February 2025

Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque

Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”

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News | 4 February 2025

“All I want is a job” pleads unemployed doctor

Unemployed health graduates march in Pretoria, demanding urgent action from Treasury

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News | 3 February 2025

West Coast beaches polluted by oil spill

Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy

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News | 3 February 2025

D-Day for public comment on plans for old Woodstock Hospital site

Reclaim the City activists picket outside Civic Centre

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News | 31 January 2025

Western Cape schools feel the squeeze after cuts in teacher posts

Teachers and principals tell GroundUp how their schools are coping

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News | 31 January 2025

Former Lottery boss is fighting to keep the proceeds of his crime, says SIU

Alfred Nevhutanda is trying to overturn a presidential proclamation that authorises the SIU to investigate corruption at the Lottery

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News | 31 January 2025