Gauteng government scrambles to meet drug rehab targets

Substance use disorder programme decimated by 2024 funding cuts

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News | 8 July 2025

MPs call for action on prison overcrowding

Portfolio committee suggests alternatives to reduce remand detention

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Parliament | 7 July 2025

Minister appoints ten new lottery grant assessors after year-long delay

NLC says applications backlog has been cleared and future applications will be assessed within 150 days

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Brief | 7 July 2025

R370 grant beneficiaries in Tsakane haven’t been paid in months

SASSA says it will investigate the problem

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News | 7 July 2025

Explainer: affordable housing in Cape Town

The City of Cape Town has promised 12,000 affordable homes

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Feature | 7 July 2025

Fidelity fire service is unlawful, says City of Cape Town

But Fidelity says it is “confident that no existing laws prohibit or restrict” its private service

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News | 7 July 2025

Mbenenge inquiry: Tribunal rejects “hearsay” statements about secretary’s life

Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge to take the stand on Monday

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News | 5 July 2025

Barbara Bell fought all her life for South Africa’s children

Outspoken activist died last week aged 86

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Obituary | 4 July 2025

Hundreds march in Pretoria in protest over blocked IDs

Protesters say their identity documents are still blocked, despite a court judgment

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Brief | 4 July 2025

Judge Mbenenge inquiry: Expert questions authenticity of explicit images

Andiswa Mengo, who made the allegations, said Mbenenge had deleted the pictures, but not before she had saved them on her phone

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News | 4 July 2025

Huge queues outside SASSA offices in KwaMashu

Grant beneficiaries complain they have not received their money

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Brief | 4 July 2025

Court delays leave pensioner locked out of her own home

Four years later, the unlawful occupants have still not been evicted

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News | 4 July 2025

Durban residents battle “sewage crisis”

The DA in KwaZulu-Natal is to take the eThekwini municipality to court

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Brief | 4 July 2025

Extortionists “hell-bent” on derailing MyCiTi bus project, says City of Cape Town

Crossroads and Philippi business forums deny City’s allegations of intimidation and say they are being sidelined

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News | 3 July 2025

Police watchdog probes disappearance of Nigerian immigrant during TV show

Silas Ani was last seen unconscious during a “drug raid” by police and Sizok’thola presenter Xolani Khumalo in April

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News | 3 July 2025

Global Fund to cut R1.4-billion to SA for HIV, TB and malaria

Global Fund is reducing funding to over 100 countries amidst shortfalls

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Brief | 3 July 2025