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Previous Lottery board and management ignored corruption investigations

“These reports were stuck in offices and safes littered across the building”

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News | 15 March 2024

How to spend 12 years building a police station

Minister Sihle Zikalala has promised the Vuwani police station will be completed in 2025. Work on it started in 2012.

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News | 15 March 2024

City of Cape Town won’t bend jobs policy, councillor tells Imizamo Yethu protesters

Development Forum says cleaning jobs are not going to young people from the area

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News | 14 March 2024

Library services crippled in Nelson Mandela Bay

Some have not reopened since Covid lockdown

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News | 14 March 2024

Thousands of people still living on Cape Town’s Central Line

This is in addition to the hundreds of families in shacks who were relocated from the railway line in Philippi in December

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News | 14 March 2024

Joburg mayor snubs Diepkloof Hostel to deal with water crisis

People living in crumbling homes accuse the mayor of disrespecting them

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News | 13 March 2024

SA company signs dubious deal over debt collections in Lesotho

Award of lucrative tender for collecting outstanding student debt being probed by authorities

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News | 13 March 2024

Mystery surrounds Gauteng government’s multi-million rand adjudication panels

Money to pay for them diverted from funding for dignity packs

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News | 12 March 2024

Waste pickers create their own recycling centre

Talks to integrate informal waste reclaimers with the City of Johannesburg’s waste management have gone nowhere for three years

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News | 12 March 2024

Ethekwini mayor warns strikers to return to work or face dismissal

The municipality has obtained an urgent interdict against violence and intimidation attempts by strikers

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News | 11 March 2024

Volunteers collect data to mitigate effects of global heating in Tshwane

About 16 local citizen scientists, led by members of Planact, have mapped the temperatures in several parts of Pretoria

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News | 8 March 2024

Cape Town protection money syndicates kill people, kill livelihoods

A salon owner was shot dead on Wednesday apparently for refusing to pay protection money

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News | 7 March 2024

Questions over how national orchestra is spending public money

Auditor-General red flags potential conflict of interest and oversight issues

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News | 7 March 2024

Police minister says he’s been working from home for four years because of “terrible” state of SAPS building

“We paid more money trying to fix that thing than we paid for buying it,” Bheki Cele tells Parliament

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News | 7 March 2024

Wits students stage ‘sleepover’ protests

The university says its made 530 emergency beds available and has reopened applications to on-campus residences

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News | 6 March 2024

Mbombela warned to fix water crisis as taps in several villages run dry

“The last time we saw a drop of water coming out of the tap was about 15 years ago,” says villager

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News | 6 March 2024