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Budget: Changes ahead for R370-a-month SRD grant

And National Treasury sets new conditions for other grants

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News | 21 May 2025

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Tested and safe? Court battle over circumcision device

Bidder wants tender process to start over, saying the device that won has no evidence supporting its use

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News | 21 May 2025

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Wits scrambles to lessen fallout from Trump’s funding cuts

“It is impossible to rescue this whole operation. Nobody has that amount of money.”

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News | 21 May 2025

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Government starts review of social grants payment system

Review is planned over a nine-month period, but activists want it done “urgently”

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News | 20 May 2025

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Hawks, NPA sued for failing to investigate corruption at PRASA

It’s been a decade since criminal complaints were filed

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News | 20 May 2025

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Cape Town rail plan still not finalised, provincial legislature told

“We are not there yet” PRASA executive tells MPLs

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News | 20 May 2025

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NPA found “no conclusive evidence” that Cwecwe was raped

Case was dropped by NPA in November 2024

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News | 20 May 2025

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Grant to prevent malnutrition is in limbo

Cabinet has concerns about Maternal Support Grant

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News | 19 May 2025

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Magudumana must stay in prison, SCA rules

One of the four judges said he would have released her

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News | 16 May 2025

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Ithuba poised to run Lottery for next 12 months — despite legal concerns

And Goldrush-backed consortium picked for eight-year licence starting in 2026

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News | 16 May 2025

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Health workers traumatised after being hijacked on duty

One to One Africa provides critical health services to about 100 underserved villages in Ngqeleni

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News | 16 May 2025

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More than R4-billion has flowed to dodgy water contracts, SIU probe finds

Companies involved are still doing business with the state

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News | 15 May 2025

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Corporate lobbying derailed South Africa’s climate goals, report finds

Just Share’s report shows failure to lower greenhouse gas emissions by big polluters

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News | 14 May 2025

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Dunoon erupts in protest after the City of Cape Town knocks down walls in informal settlement

Residents have been replacing shacks with brick and mortar homes

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News | 13 May 2025

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Lesotho Highlands Water Project contractor suspended for polluting rivers

1,400 workers sent home as work on 38km tunnel stalls

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News | 13 May 2025

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Battle looms over abalone quota

Commercial permit holders worried about plan to give quotas to small-scale fishers

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News | 13 May 2025