Joburg residents, fed up with water outages, block roads

“We just want water to come out of our taps. We can’t even flush our toilets.”

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Brief | 4 September 2025

Compensation for sick miners: only 30% of claimants paid out by Tshiamiso Trust

Most claims do not meet the medical criteria, AGM told

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News | 4 September 2025

Gauteng DSD’s R215-million irregular expenditure

Department missed several targets in 2024/25

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News | 4 September 2025

KZN is failing to build houses for thousands of flood victims

Floods are expected to leave many more people homeless in the coming years

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News | 4 September 2025

Health DG enters the legal fight over circumcision device

Rival company Unicirc disputes CircumQ’s safety claims, but Dr Sabelo Buthelezi says the device has been used successfully in Gauteng

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Law | 4 September 2025

Gayton McKenzie vs Drug-Free Sport: heated debate in Parliament

Board was dissolved for spending about R1-million fighting a court case in Switzerland so that South Africa could stay in world sport

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Parliament | 3 September 2025

Durban waste workers protest over salary cuts

Payrates have halved since new contracts started

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Brief | 3 September 2025

New deadline for phase-out of SASSA Gold Cards

About 450,000 people still need to switch to Postbank’s Black Card

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News | 3 September 2025

Grannies help repair roads neglected by municipality

Roads in Metsi-Matsho village in Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality have not been fixed for decades

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Storm damaged classrooms left roofless for six years

Ngqusi Junior Secondary school in Centane have been waiting for the education department to fix its classrooms since June 2019

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Kariega clinic still closed seven weeks after gang shooting

Area has seen a surge in gang crime, residents say

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Video: Editor responds to readers’ comments on Gaza

Video by Ashraf Hendricks

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Video | 3 September 2025

Limpopo villagers block roads demanding water

“The problem is not water. It’s the poor leadership who are not willing to serve the people.”

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Brief | 2 September 2025

Dozens of organisations join sex work decriminalisation court case

Cape High Court allows multiple groups to intervene in SWEAT’s challenge to laws criminalising consenting adult sex work

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Law | 2 September 2025

Fed up Gqeberha residents close clinic

A petition signed by 200 people demands the local health service improve

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Brief | 2 September 2025

Sewage in the rivers as Polokwane water treatment project stalls

Polluted water is flowing into the Blood and Sand rivers

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Brief | 2 September 2025