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“The smell of death was everywhere” – Stilfontein mine rescue ends

246 miners rescued, 78 bodies retrieved

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News | 17 January 2025

MPs demand probe into “entire social grant payment system”

Portfolio committee chair Bridget Masango says officials found guilty of fraud or misconduct must be brought to book

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News | 16 January 2025

“Many women are going to starve with their families” says widow as CWP contracts end

Update: COGTA extends Community Works Programme contracts terminated for workers aged 55 and older late on Thursday night

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News | 16 January 2025

FNB closes bank accounts of dodgy lottery-funded “activist”

Tebogo Sithathu is under investigation by the SIU over a series of multimillion-rand grants

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News | 16 January 2025

How the SRD grant system has been defrauded

Poor systems enabled it

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News | 27 December 2024

Announcement of new lottery licence operator postponed - again

The National Lotteries Commission will use its reserves to continue funding good causes if lottery ticket sales are suspended

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News | 24 December 2024

Kakamas residents live on the edge of a water emergency

The town’s only water treatment plant is near collapse

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News | 20 December 2024

Sports organisation hides how R17-million Lottery funding was used

SIU is probing grants paid to Physical Education Institute of South Africa

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News | 20 December 2024

Riding Cape Town’s Southern Line

Metrorail has improved from its worst days but some problems still need to be fixed

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News | 20 December 2024