This is a list of updates, improvements and corrections to
articles, as well as retractions and apologies.
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A previous version said that "The South African Federation of Trade Unions called for Maverick’s closure."
In fact, it was a SAFTU affiliate, the Information Communication Technology Union that supported Modiba's position.
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After this article was published the NLC Board published a statement saying:
"The Board acknowledges the resignation of Ms TCC Mampane from her position as Commissioner of the National Lotteries Commission, effective 15 August 2022
and are considering the letter of resignation. The process of the appointment of the new Commissioner is well underway. The Board ensures the efficient and effective operation of the Commission, while processes are underway."
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This article was updated to include a brief comment from SASSA Western Cape.
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The original article mixed up the SGB chairperson and deputy-chairperson roles of Mbhele and Radebe.
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The story was updated with a comment from PRASA.
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Nceba Ndikinda is the new mayor. Khanyile Maneli is no longer mayor. The copy was corrected in numerous places to correct the mistaken identity.
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We have removed a paragraph that made claims about disciplinary action being faced by Mampane. We regret the error.
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This article was updated at 11:55am to include the municipal spokesperson's response.
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This article has been updated to include the correct spelling of Jacob Robbertse Attorneys, Mshandukani Holdings and William Huma.
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Changed caption. The man on the left is Emanuel Manari not Tshifhwiwa Magoma.
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This article has been updated to include comment from SAPS.
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The article has been updated to include the correct sponsor for the project.
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The original version of this article misspelt Heeten Bhagat's name. Our apologies.
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A paragraph was added about the number of approved SRD grant beneficiaries since the latest iteration of the grant was launched in April 2022.
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A further response from the City of Cape Town has been appended to this article.
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Households are restricted to 50-litres per person per day, rather than 50-litres per day, according to the municipality.
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Comment from the City of Cape Town was received and added.
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The story was updated with a response from Takealot
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This article was updated at 15:50 to include the results of the by-elections.
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The story was updated after publication with information about the boys' fathers and the social grant that Mandla is supposed to benefit from but doesn't.
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This article has been updated to include the full statement by Mayco member Zahid Badroodien. The reference to City officials investigating the issue was also removed.
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The correct spelling of the town is Muhunguti, not Muhunguki as originally published.
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Our original headline incorrectly stated the judgment was by the Constitutional Court. It was by the Gauteng High Court.
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Lindokuhle's name was misspelled in a previous version of this article. This has been corrected.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Office of the Chief Justice started under Mogoeng Mogoeng.
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Updated the subheading, and clarified that while the SAHPRA decision discourages use of ivermectin, off-label use of ivermectin by individual clinicians, and the compounding of ivermectin oral dosage forms by pharmacists is still permitted. A ban would require SAHPRA to declare such products undesirable in terms of section 23 of the Medicine and Related Substances Act. Thanks to Andy Gray for alerting us to the clarification.
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On request we have removed the name of the gambler and his wife since we do not believe there is a burning public interest to name them.
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Comment by the NPA was added after publication.
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This article was amended to correct the descriptions of the authors.
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An earlier version of this article misspelt Mbekezeli Benjamin's first name.
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An earlier version of this article misspelt Stephan Swanson's first name.
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The graph showing the correlation between diarrhoea cases and sewage spills was added after publication.
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At the request of one of the parties, a name has been removed from the article.
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A previous version of this article stated that Martha Marais was tied to a bench in Mamelodi Hospital in 2018. This was corrected to 2019.
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The article was updated with a response from the Department of Tourism saying the matter was reported to the Assets Forfeiture Unit and South African Police Services at Sunnyside Police Station in 2011 already, who referred it to the National Director of Prosecutions.
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The embedded video was re-uploaded at a new link.
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We spelt Thato Moncho's name incorrectly in an earlier version of this article. Our apologies.
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The location of the school has been corrected.
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This article was updated to include a brief response from PRASA.
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Deborah Rudaba's name was spelt incorrectly as Debra
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The following changes were made to the article after publication:
“and 15 years” was deleted from the end of this sentence: “Adam ...was sentenced in 2002 to life imprisonment”
The sentence: "Adam applied for parole after completing his 15-year sentence in 2017” was replaced with: "In 2017, the Durban High Court ruled in favour of Adam's application for the processing of his, and eight other Westville lifers' parole with immediate effect.”
The words "date on which a person is convicted" were replaced with "date of commission of offence" in this sentence: "The Phaahla judgment also means that parole is now determined by the date of commission of offence"
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The story has been updated with a reply from Bolt.
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The article originally stated: "Nine months later, in June 2021 ...".
It has been corrected to say: "Nine months later, in June 2020 ..."
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The image at the top of the article was replaced with a more up-to-date one.
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The article originally stated that the Naledi to JHB corridor would resume full service in April this year. On PRASA's request we changed it to state that work on this corridor is expected to be completed in the next financial year.
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The original article incorrectly stated that 229 constituted more than half of 550 finalised IPID disciplinary cases in 2020/21. Of course 229 is not over half of 550.
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The name of Deputy NLC Northern Cape head Aobakwe Gaobuse was corrected after publication.
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This article was updated to include a brief comment from police
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The original article described conophytums as a rare species. It is actually a rare genus. We have replaced the word species with "plant type".
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The first bullet point in the article originally gave the wrong date when Godfrey Thulare was shot. This has been corrected to 8 February.
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This article has been updated to include comment from Malusi Booi.
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A reader pointed out that wastewater does not go through primary treatment before it is discharged.
Mr Badroodien's office clarified as follows: "A primary screening refers to the removal of solids before the City discharges the wastewater."
The wastewater goes through primary screening before it is pumped to the outfall, not primary treatment.
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Name corrected: Pamela Chakuvinga not Charuvinga.
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We incorrectly identified the acting regional manager of PRASA Western Cape as Kagiso Molemo, instead of Kaparo Molefi
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This article was amended to correct Simphiwo Rani's age to 48.
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This article previously incorrectly stated that the University management had agreed to a 5% salary increase, effective from 1 January 2022, and a R2,000 once-off payment.
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The initial article incorrectly stated that the workers were asking for a R3,000 increase. In fact they were asking for a 10% increase and a once-off R3,000 payment.
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The original article misspelt the name of the company Seperation at Source as Separation at Source (which is a different company).
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The following was added after publication:
Mbabela said, "Classes were conducted through online platforms ... Staff and students were advised to work and study remotely."
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The headline of the original article used the word "sacked' instead of "suspended".
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Parliament issued an ill-tempered response to our article. Their main concern appears to be that we didn't include all their answers to all our questions inside the article.
In fact, as far as we can tell, we included all the substantive aspects of Parliament's reply that did not contradict Parliament's own reports or make no sense. We also included a clearly marked link to a PDF file with Parliament's full response (which remains in the text). This is standard media practice.
Nevertheless, we have updated the article by placing all our questions and all Parliament's responses in a gray box at the bottom of the article.
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The caption of the second paragraph contained the wrong name in the original article and has been corrected.
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An earlier version of this article gave the wrong name for Masenya. Our apologies.
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An earlier version of this article contained a link to the incomplete judgment.
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This article has been updated with Metrorail comment
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We briefly removed Kati's name and that he was charged with murder, but then confirmed that he has indeed been charged with murder and that we were entitled to publish his name.
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The spelling of the name of the deceased was incorrect in an earlier version.
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A small change was made to the opening sentence to make it 100% accurate.
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The article contained a quote that incorrectly stated Siyewa was removed from a Trust via court order. In fact he resigned. Our apologies.
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Updates were made with comments received via Siyewa's lawyer. They are in bold text.
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Name corrected: it is Zimasa Jim not Zimkhitha Jim
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The article was updated after publication noting the decision of the Botswana Court of Appeal.
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The article originally stated: "Today, it is worth about R14Â million, according to figures published annually by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA)."
The correct figure is R30 million
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The original article incorrectly spelt Judge Jafta's name.
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One of the organisations listed as an organiser of the event in the original version of this article has been removed.
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"Wits Academic Hospital" was deleted from this list paragraph: Hillbrow Community Health Centre, Yeoville Clinic, Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, Jeppe Clinic, Wits Academic Hospital and Kalafong Hospital.
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (already in the list) was meant.
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The following paragraph was changed: "The horse owners don’t even get medication and dipping. They also don’t get the vaccines if there is an outbreak of disease."
To read: “The horse owners do get medication and dipping only if there is an outbreak of disease. They get vaccines which are not enough for all the horses."
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Our legal language was ever so slightly corrected after publication. In particular the last summary bullet point and the second last paragraph were reworded.
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An earlier version of the article incorrectly stated that Qunu was Nelson Mandela's birthplace. He spent his childhood in Qunu but was born in nearby Mvezo.
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This article was updated to include a comment sent by Uber
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We received an email from a company claiming that that the copyright on the photo we originally used on this article, which we copied for fair use from the DA website, was owned by Reuters. We have consequently replaced the image.
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We changed the original article to note that sewage (as opposed to E. coli) was a concern for hyacinth growth.
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The sub headline in this article has been amended
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Herman Mashaba's comments were added.
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Ethel Musonza is the correct name. Not Ethel Madzinga.
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An earlier version of the article incorrectly stated that “mnyama ndawo” is Swahili. It's not.
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Minor corrections were made after publication.
The table at the end was also added.
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This article previously stated that the new Observatory Forensic Pathology Institute at the entrance of Groote Schuur Hospital would bring resources to evidence testing among other things. We were informed on 2/11/2021 that the institute is expected to improve forensic pathology service, but not testing. Specimens are sent to the SAPS lab for testing.
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The sentence "the Council, on 27 October, agreed to refurbish the stadium" was changed to read: "the Council, on 27 October, agreed to hand the stadium to Afriforum to refurbish"
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This text was amended to correct the name of Grace beyond Borders
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The article was updated shortly after publication with the City's comment.
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This sentence was corrected to attribute the quote to Matiwane, not Diko:
Matiwane said the Eastern Cape Department of Education was aware of the problem with the toilets “because the officials visit our school every year”.
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A letter of support for Abahlali and for the residents of eKhenana has been signed by prominent US intellectual Noam Chomsky. The letter calls on the South African authorities to “deal fairly with the shack dwellers, to take the poor seriously as they take leadership in building decent lives in a very difficult situation”.
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The Giyani Municipality spokesperson's first name was corrected to Steven (not Simon)
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The article was updated with a response from Vhembe District Municipality spokesperson.
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The article originally stated that we've been reporting late judgments since 2018. We have actually been doing so since 2017.
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The NPA asked GroundUp to print the following response (which was subsequently updated a second time):
In relation to the article by GroundUp the NPA accepts that it is correct that any prisoner who suffers from a terminal disease might qualify for medical parole in terms of Section 79(1)(a) – (c) of the Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998. There is however a further requirement that the risk of re-offending must be low.
The NPA further accepts that the medical parole board acts according to prescribed powers and will only release those prisoners who qualify and not release those who do not. The NPA is however concerned that Mr Jacob’s family are wrongly and publicly issuing statements that Jacobs without question qualifies for medical parole, when this is still a matter for the medical parole board to decide according to strict criteria, including possibly the prisoner’s danger to society and this is causing the Schoombie family unnecessary and unfair anguish.
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The town of Newcastle was spelt incorrectly in the original.
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The headline was changed to reflect that the ACC wants the road moved, not stopped.
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The article was updated with comment from the City of Cape Town.
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A broken link explaining who is Itai Dzamara was replaced.
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The following correction was made: the group of parents call themselves Save Our Kids not Save Our Children.
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The article was updated with a response from the City of Cape Town.
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The article originally said Minister Peters had agreed to the devolution of the rail infrastructure.
It was in fact still under discussion.
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Sadly, Winston died on 25 July 2021. Our condolences to his family, friends and the health workers who tried so hard to save his life.
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The article was updated with a response from the City
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This article was update to include that the matter was postponed to Friday following a brief hearing on Wednesday.
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The article was updated with comment from the City of Cape Town
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This article previously incorrectly attributed a quote to Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Waste, Xanthea Limberg. It has since been corrected to Mayco Member for Human Settlements, Malusi Booi.
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The paragraph that provides an overview of the status of refugee and asylum seekers has been improved to give a more accurate picture of the trend with regard to asylum seeker applications. The ten-year average, which previously stood alone, was supplemented with a trajectory for the five most recent years.
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This article previously incorrectly named Mitchell’s Plain Community Forum Leader Sandy Sutter. We have corrected it to Strandfontein Community Police Forum chairperson Sandy Schuter.
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This article was corrected as follows:
The sentence:
“Bao Down is currently closed after level 4 restrictions came into effect on Sunday”
was replaced with:
“Bao Down is currently closed as it relocates to Green Point; it will reopen for takeaways but not yet table service after level 4 restrictions that came into effect on Sunday.”
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This article previously stated that the occupiers were unlawfully evicted in 2017. They were in fact evicted through a court process, however after fighting it in court, were allowed to moved back.
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The photo caption originally incorrectly gave the founding year of UDWOSA as 2019 instead of 2018.
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The caption was corrected. It originally suggested the person featured in the photo was Pinky Mashiane.
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This story was re-edited after publication although no substantial changes were made.
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Dr Fauci's title was corrected. He is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the US National Institutes of Health, not the director of National Institutes of Health as originally stated.
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The article was updated with a response from the City.
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The article said R165,000 was taken from Shigute. This amount was in fact taken from Markos. These two sentences have been corrected.
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The original article stated that the vials contain 0.2ml of vaccine. It's actually 0.45. We've corrected this section and also explained that an additional reason that there are generally five rather than six doses per vaccine is because of the dead space in the syringes. For more on the dead space in syringe see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_dead_space_syringe
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In an earlier version of the article a seat described as a proportional representation one was actually a ward seat.
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The original article said the committee meeting is on Friday. It is on Wednesday.
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The original article stated that the SAPS Amendment Bill will become law later this year. As the corrected version makes clear, it must still be presented to Parliament's police committee.
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The original article quoted Ryan Noach saying the glitch affected one Discovery place, but that is an address: 1 Discovery Place.
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This article was updated to include comment from SASSA spokesperson Luzuko Qina.
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This article has been changed to include comment from the City of Cape Town.
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The article originally quoted the death statistics for Hungary and South Africa per 100k people but it is was actually per 1m people.
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We used Mr Marinus's second name instead of his first name in an earlier version of this article.
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The article was updated to reflect that the group only handed over their open letter to the Department of Social Development in Pretoria on Thursday.
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The article was updated when comment was received from PRASA
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This article was updated to include comment from eThekwini Municipality spokesperson, Msawakhe Mayisela.
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A reader has pointed out that the mill at Oude Moulen may have a better claim to being South Africa's oldest surviving windmill as it was built in 1782, and so predates Mostert's Mill by 14 years. However the mill at Oude Moulen was converted into a chapel in 1928, while Mostert's Mill remained as a mill, intermittently in operation, until the fire. And it will hopefully grind wheat again in the not too distant future.
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This article previously stated that there are no toilets in the building. It has been updated to reflect that there are only two working toilets.
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The original article incorrectly identified the one judge as George Phatudi. It is in fact AML Phatudi, a different judge.
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The story was updated with further comment from the WCED saying it had tried to obtain details of the learners attending the school in order to place them.
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The article was updated with comment from provincial health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo
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The school's name was incorrectly reported as Isipho Primary. The correct name is Inkosi Sipho Primary School.
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An earlier version of the article cited the wrong section of the Zimbabwean Constitution.
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Comment from the Western Cape Department of Education added.
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An earlier version of the article misspelt Mr Matutu's name.
