This is a list of updates, improvements and corrections to
articles, as well as retractions and apologies.
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The date on which Nandipha Magudumana collected the body was 6 May, not 5 May.
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The article was updated with the following paragraph:
The Department of Public Works says the Nurock building is now earmarked for utilisation by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport as the Cape Town Museum.
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A correction was made to the sub-headline on this story which previously referred to a forensic report
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The subheading was corrected. It previously incorrectly stated that investigations into the financial mismanagement began in 2017 instead of 2007.
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This article has been amended to reflect the fact that the most recent protest took place earlier this month, not last Thursday.
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Neo Makhulane's pronouns were incorrect and should have been they/them. Apologies.
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Ricardo Mackenzie's name was misspelled.
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The article was updated to include a response from KwaZulu-Natal.
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The headline was changed to replace "buildings" by "library" after publication.
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The article was updated with a response from the Gauteng human settlements department.
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We have updated the article to include all of the grant increases for April and October 2023.
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"Bopapa" was corrected to "Bopape".
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Advocate Elaine Zungu's name has been corrected.
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The following sentence: "He was told there had been an error and he had to register again" was corrected to read: "He was told there had been an error and his claim was still being processed."
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Fixed photo attribution to Masego Mafata
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The previous headline and photo caption incorrectly stated that the 'friend' had been sexually assaulted - this is false, it was an assault.
Her friend also reported the harassment from her attacker to the court, not at a police station.
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At their request, the name of one of the people interviewed in this article was changed to protect their identity.
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Fani Dingiswayo's name was misspelled.
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The statistic dealing with intentional deaths in men in 2021 was and the CEO'S name was corrected from Rickhardsson to Rikhardsson.
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The phrase "forging a court order" has been replaced with "misrepresenting a court order".
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The original version of the article incorrectly stated that the court order was a forgery.
This was because the order was not available in court records, it’s wording is unusual, it’s dated 2022 when it was issued in 2020, the only person who appeared to have it was Mpendulo and the issuing judge had no recollection of it.
Nevertheless Mpendulo has misrepresented it as a victory, claiming that "UCT loses billion rand court case". It is not a victory. It's a perfunctory order referring a case for oral evidence.
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The original article stated that gas cooking is "significantly more expensive" than using the grid. After further consultation, we have removed the word "significantly". The margin is not huge.
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The article originally stated that the UNHCR was backing the litigation by the organisations. An official gave the keynote address for the annual event.
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Bulungula College's 2021 pass rate was 64%, not 78%.
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This article was updated to accurately reflect that Mike Perry, founder of African Reptiles and Venom, stated that the produce of polyvalent antivenom takes "a few months" and not a few years as previously stated.
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This article was updated to include the correct spelling of Tsotsi in the headline.
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This article was updated to include comment from the Shoprite Media Team
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This article has been amended to clarify some history.
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The original article incorrectly stated that countries in Africa were excluded from the Viiv/MPP patent pool.
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The article has been updated with a response from ViiV Healthcare.
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After publication PRASA's Andiswa Makanda sent the following response:
"PRASA Management and the Board are rebuilding the organisation into a credible institution to ensure that it is able to deliver on its legal mandate.
"To this effect, several investigations into misconduct, maladministration, corruption, and fraudulent activities have been instituted to address lapses that enabled systematic corruption within the organisation and to ensure consequence management for those who have been found guilty.
"Disciplinary processes of those suspended pending various investigations are at various stages.
"Details of the outcomes of the various investigations in the business will be shared at an appropriate time.Â
"We are also working with the Hawks and Special Investigating Unit in finalising their investigations on other matters."
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The costs order was just against the OCA
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The article originally incorrectly stated that the Western Cape Education Department is a respondent in the case. Only the MEC and premier are respondents.
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The case will be heard on Thursday 10 November at 10am in Johannesburg before Judge Yacoob.
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UCT's spokesperson's comment was added after publication.
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The former title of Bulungula Incubator founder Rejanne Woodroffe has been added.
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This article was updated to include the correct spelling of the following names: Buzman Mdyose, Zandile Dlaliduduma and Sibulele Mango
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This article was amended to include further information about Parklands College and Rockwell Automation.
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This article has been amended to correct the spelling of the name of municipal spokesperson Thipa Selala
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Hermanus Pieterse as Hermanus Pretorius.
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The article was updated. We incorrectly stated that the former supervisor said workers make that amount R1,400.
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The article was updated after publication with comment from the City of Cape Town.
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Links to sources were added after publication.
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Jammie steps was changed to plaza steps.
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Corrected Vuyo Dlanga's designation at DENOSA
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One of the bullet points at the top of the article originally stated that 3Sixty was placed under curatorship 2 years after insolvency. We have amended this to "at least 16 months".
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Extensive corrections were made to this article a few hours after publication:
1. The original article created the impression that the stations were still not operating, but they are.
2. The original article incorrectly created the impression that PRASA has missed the deadline to fix the stations. But its deadline is December 2022, which is three months away. The March 2022 deadline was to get the trains running to the stations. While we're not sure if that deadline was met precisely, the trains are currently running to these stations.
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The text was corrected to reflect it was Judge Dolamo not Judge Dlodlo who heard the case on Friday
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The story has been updated with a response from the Department of Water and Sanitation
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In an earlier version the word "and" was missing between "Mosokodi and Letwaba Family trusts".
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This article has been amended to say that the event took place on Tuesday, not Wednesday
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This article was updated at 4pm on Tuesday to include the response by the Office of the Chief Justice.
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An earlier version of the article incorrectly gave the year of a Portfolio Committee Meeting as 2018. The correct year is 2020.
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This sentence was changed to reflect that Mayor Swart was quoting the Kwanokuthula leadership: "Mayor Swart also posted on Facebook, saying that the Kwanokuthula leadership have advised that there were 69 shops in Kwanokuthula owned by immigrants, and that “it was agreed that foreigners will reduce their quantity of shops to give South African nationals the opportunity to open and trade..."
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A minor correction was made to a quote by Wilma Venter. A substantive correction was made to a quote by Corrie Badenhorst. Our apologies.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Nexia SAB&T as Nexus.
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This paragraph was improved to reflect that the First Nations Collective was formed by a grouping of the Khoi, not all the Khoi: "The announcement by LLPT in 2016 of its intention to develop was initially met with unanimous opposition by Khoi houses and organisations. But in November 2019 a Khoi grouping formed as the Western Cape First Nations Collective in favour of the development, splitting the Khoi houses"
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This article was update to include a comment from the provincial health department spokesman.
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Comment that came out of a meeting about the school has been added, including comment from the education department
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Spelling of names was corrected.
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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.
