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Call to scrap passports between Lesotho and SA

Lesotho’s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards

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News | 23 October 2025

Special schools in KwaZulu-Natal to stay closed

Parents demand buses, more staff and a hostel

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News | 23 October 2025

Arts festivals call for clarity on funding

Long-standing arts festivals that provide thousands of jobs have received no funds this year from the arts and culture department

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News | 23 October 2025

Janitors employed to clean toilets have to buy their own water to do it

Company contracted to City of Cape Town does not provide water to cleaners, in a settlement which has none

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News | 23 October 2025

Fight over tourism development in the Cederberg

Trekkloof farm owner Anton Kok started building without plans or environmental authorisation

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News | 22 October 2025

Former leaders of Lesotho women’s rights organisation accused of corruption

Two senior office-bearers of Women and Law are accused of misappropriating R5.6-million in donor funds

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News | 22 October 2025

MPs call for heads to roll at Fort Hare

Vice Chancellor Sakhele Buhlungu has not properly explained why a man facing corruption allegations was promoted

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News | 21 October 2025

Death toll rises from Makhado bus crash

Relatives gather to identify the bodies of the dead

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News | 21 October 2025

Somerset West taxi route opened, but dispute is not over

Rival taxi associations still disagree over route from Khayelitsha to Somerset West

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News | 21 October 2025

Hundreds of jobs at stake at Lesotho diamond mine

25% state-owned Kao Mine could shut down “within weeks”

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News | 21 October 2025

Fort Hare paid R17-million for work that was never done, investigation finds

ICT department staff and service providers implicated in alleged multimillion-rand scam

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News | 17 October 2025

Zoning problem forces Cape Town school to close

Parents with children at Otters’ Creek Junior are scrambling to find space at other special needs schools

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News | 17 October 2025

Lottery commits R124-million to fight HIV and TB

Funding intended to help fill gap left by withdrawal of US funds

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News | 16 October 2025

Let them eat kreef!

New season’s crayfish catch allocation is up almost 60%

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News | 16 October 2025

PEPFAR cuts leave clinics short of staff

Survey finds longer waiting times for ARVs

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News | 15 October 2025

Winning lottery bidder’s connections to Paul Mashatile being probed, says Minister Tau

Sizekhaya consortium has links to Mashatile, says Ithuba Lottery

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News | 15 October 2025