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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

Affordable housing to be built on contested Sea Point site, says provincial government

Announcement by MEC Tertuis Simmers comes after a decade of battles

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News | 30 January 2025

Protest outside Delft community health centre after baby’s death

The health department says the centre cannot treat patients who need specialist care and the child was referred to Tygerberg Hospital

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News | 30 January 2025

Tense standoff between police and Kliptown tenants

City Power officials chased away by angry group

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News | 30 January 2025

Top KZN official could face criminal charges after tenders probe

Provincial supply chain management director Musa Zondi was fired earlier this month

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News | 30 January 2025

Night studies pay off for Dunoon matriculant

Sange Dastile studied in the early morning in the one-room house he shares with his mother and brother. Now he’s off to Stellenbosch University to study medicine.

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News | 29 January 2025

Lottery bosses turned to State Security Agency to investigate leaks

But things didn’t go the way they wanted

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News | 29 January 2025

Gauteng Department of Social Development admits it did not comply with court orders

Administrative failures continue to plague the department

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News | 28 January 2025

Learners sit on the floor at this old and overcrowded Ekurhuleni school

Erasmus Monareng Secondary has dilapidated classrooms and is short-staffed

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News | 28 January 2025

Multi-million rand housing project at a standstill for weeks

The Bridge City Housing development was approved in 2019 but due to delays and financial problems the project remains largely incomplete

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News | 28 January 2025

Cattle are drinking sewage on this Free State veld

Sewage treatment has broken down in Maluti-a-Phofung municipality

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News | 27 January 2025

400 Eastern Cape families dumped in wetland without services for 13 years

Dutywa residents were promised houses and told relocation was only temporary by Mbashe Local Municipality

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News | 27 January 2025

Explosive court ruling on SRD grant

Government ordered to “progressively increase” the grant and income threshold, and allow in-person applications

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News | 24 January 2025