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SASSA Gold Card deadline extended to 31 May

Postbank’s announcement comes after contradictory reports by SASSA and the Minister in the Presidency

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News | 28 March 2025

Deaths spark protest over unsafe bridge outside Pinetown

Umngeni River claims two lives

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News | 28 March 2025

Days of protests in Indwe over hospital downgrade

Health MEC assures residents there will be no downgrade if they are against it

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News | 27 March 2025

City of Cape Town proposes affordable housing on prime Green Point site

The land value of the site ranks “among the highest in the southern hemisphere”

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News | 27 March 2025

Good news for leopard toads: anonymous donor buys crucial habitat in Cape Town

The property in the heart of Noordhoek will also be an open space for the community

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News | 27 March 2025

Limpopo Education Department set to miss pit toilets deadline

Some Rivubye High School learners prefer to use bushes

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News | 27 March 2025

Extortionists close down informal businesses in Cape Town

SAPS says fighting extortion is a priority, but won’t provide details on its response

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News | 26 March 2025

Refugees evicted from UNHCR in 2023 reduced to eating frogs

The families have been living in an old school building in Bronkhorstspruit for two years

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News | 26 March 2025

Health Minister confident Lesotho can manage without US funding, but jobs are already being lost

And funding cuts are hitting access to HIV tests and medicines

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News | 26 March 2025

R25-million and six years later, Soweto centre still needs millions to be completed

SIU investigates unfinished arts centre backed by music legends Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu

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News | 25 March 2025

Campaign launched to help stateless people become citizens

Hundreds take part in human rights festival at Constitutional Hill

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News | 24 March 2025

Political will needed to save lives amid USAID funding cuts, say activists

“We will not let our people die” says Zackie Achmat

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News | 20 March 2025

SASSA explains why it paid grants to 75,000 dead people

Systems are being improved to solve the problem

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News | 20 March 2025

More than 100 law firms defrauded the Road Accident Fund

Special Investigating Unit tells Parliament duplicate payments to lawyers amounted to R340-million

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News | 20 March 2025

Big oil find in Limpopo? Or just false hope?

Troubling questions for Booi Brothers about their exploration in Vhurivhuri

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News | 20 March 2025

Fears grow that US may pull funding for South African medical research

Large clinical trials several years in and with millions of rands already spent are at risk

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News | 19 March 2025