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Clanwilliam dam project has limped along and is now ten years behind schedule
Originally it was supposed to be completed in 2018. The cost has also more than doubled.
By Liezl Human
News | 21 January 2025
Over a hundred disabled and elderly people queue outside SASSA in Khayelitsha
Monday was the first day for disability grant applicants to make medical bookings
News | 21 January 2025
“The smell of death was everywhere” – Stilfontein mine rescue ends
246 miners rescued, 78 bodies retrieved
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
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
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
News | 16 January 2025
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
News | 24 December 2024
Kakamas residents live on the edge of a water emergency
The town’s only water treatment plant is near collapse
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 20 December 2024