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Zimbabwean families stranded in Cape Town as cold front approaches

Fears of violence on 30 June drive hundreds from their homes

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News | 27 June 2026

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Water tankers everywhere in Joburg, yet surprisingly hard to find

Johannesburg deploys dozens of tankers daily during outages. We tried to find them

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News | 26 June 2026

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Lesotho seeks compensation and economic support from South Africa

Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices

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News | 26 June 2026

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Important advance in TB treatment

South African researchers publish trial results in world’s leading medical journal

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News | 25 June 2026

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Lottery budgets nearly a quarter of a billion rand for legal fees

This is the cost of rooting out corruption, Commissioner Jodi Scholtz tells Parliament

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News | 25 June 2026

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Dispute stalls closure of hazardous dumpsite in Maseru

Court ordered shut down of the Tšosane dumpsite delayed after council cancels M27.3-million contract

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News | 24 June 2026

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Chaos in KZN as immigrants rush to pop-up repatriation sites

A disused government building in Pietermaritzburg has been occupied

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News | 23 June 2026

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Water is so close, yet so far for this Joburg neighbourhood

Thembelihle residents struggle daily to get water, but they watch dozens of water tankers fill up and then drive past

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News | 23 June 2026

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More than 7,000 Malawians in Durban have been sent home, says Leon Schreiber

Another 8,000 people are yet to be processed — and more are arriving

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News | 22 June 2026