Police torture case: delay over CCTV footage

Three officers are accused of assaulting Juma Igiranieza, a barber, at his workplace, in Mowbray on 7 November 2023

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Brief | 25 July 2024

Rubbish piles up in Durban streets as cleaners picket outside city hall

Expanded Public Works Programme workers lose jobs as budget is cut

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Brief | 25 July 2024

Spectre of new hotel looms over SA’s oldest mosque

Bo-Kaap residents appeal City’s decision to approve a new six-storey development in the historic suburb

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News | 25 July 2024

New app to help Western Cape social workers

Plan is to slash time spent on paperwork

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News | 25 July 2024

Dogs and cats get their own taxi in Cape Town

The taxi is being piloted by AfriPaw and is aimed at providing access to its free monthly animal clinics for pets living in poor communities like Vrygrond

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News | 25 July 2024

Man found dead after arrest: family demands answers from police

Western Cape SAPS have opened an inquest docket

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News | 25 July 2024

Judge blocks government plan to tell private hospitals and doctors where they can go

“Certificate of Need” scheme thrown out of National Health Act

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Law | 24 July 2024

Gauteng Department of Social Development fudges reason for funding delays

Head of Department claims the Auditor-General has distanced itself from previous statements to GroundUp. The Auditor-General says this is not true

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News | 24 July 2024

Thabo Bester to launch new bid to postpone trial

Case postponed to 31 July

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Brief | 24 July 2024

Tribunal urged to restore Makhubele’s dignity

Judge was unfairly branded a criminal and a liar, says her lawyer

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News | 23 July 2024

Dozens of families affected as polluted Cape Town dam overflows

Informal settlement flooded with filthy water

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News | 23 July 2024

Protesters block N12, demand toilets, water

“Children as young as seven years old fight for water with old people”

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Brief | 23 July 2024

Public Works workers picket in Durban, demanding to be insourced

They say they have been on up to six-month contracts, which were renewed repeatedly for ten years

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Brief | 23 July 2024

City of Joburg’s property error causes havoc for homeowners

Stand numbers in Bertrams are in a mess, affecting billing, valuations, and property sales

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News | 23 July 2024

Apartheid-era flats are “a ticking time bomb”

Residents want the broken-down flats fixed; the municipality says the residents must first pay rent

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News | 23 July 2024

Government contractor misses yet another deadline on R123-million Gauteng school

Construction of the project started in 2022 to accommodate the school’s 1,200 learners

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Brief | 23 July 2024