Kimberley’s big hole of municipal failure

Sol Plaatje municipality’s speaker and municipal manager were recently appointed despite tainted records

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Feature | 10 December 2025

Kimberley: A provincial capital sunk in sewage

Salt pans and lowlands around the town are lakes of filth

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Feature | 1 December 2025

Hawks and SIU raid accountants in lottery corruption investigation

Accountants allegedly prepared fraudulent financial statements to get lottery funding

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News | 21 February 2024

Judge slams police for refusing to carry out court orders

Some SAPS members have completely forgotten why they are wearing police uniforms, said Acting Judge Ramaepadi

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Law | 19 July 2022

Hawks swoop on Northern Cape Lottery offices after whistleblowers’ tip-offs

Seven NLC employees named in the search and seizure warrant including the deputy provincial head

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News | 11 March 2022

Court grants order on dodgy multimillion rand Lottery grant

Big win for SIU after President Ramaphosa authorised the investigation of the National Lotteries Commission in 2020

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News | 17 February 2022

Kimberley residents fed up with municipality’s handling of water crisis

The city has had rolling water cuts since December

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Brief | 15 March 2021

Lottery whistleblower “pressured” to pay IT company to build athletics track

R10 million was paid but no work was done

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News | 18 December 2020

“They say we are assaulting people. We say we are blessing them.”

Part two of a three part series on vigilantism in South Africa

Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.

Feature | 25 August 2017