Occupiers evicted from Alex social housing containers

Mayco member says removal had to take place to make way for rightful beneficiaries. But it has taken the City of Johannesburg years to place people in these containers.

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News | 12 September 2024

SASSA underspent R4-billion on SRD grants, says Auditor General

Members of Parliament criticise the agency for R316-million in overpayments

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News | 12 September 2024

Villagers live next to a platinum mine, but have no jobs

Residents of Limpopo’s Barok Ba Nkwana and Atok villages demand government speak to the mine on their behalf

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News | 12 September 2024

Limpopo teacher scammed out of her savings

Thebe Investment Corporation warns against fraudsters using its name

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News | 12 September 2024

Premier loses court bid to end Mister Sweet strike

Strike continues after Labour Court ruling

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Brief | 11 September 2024

Durban police brutality case postponed yet again

The trial of 17 police officers for the death of Regan Naidoo in 2018 has been postponed repeatedly for years now

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Law | 11 September 2024

Former Lottery boss is delaying forfeiture of assets worth millions of rands

Pretoria High Court postpones application by the National Prosecuting Authority

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Brief | 11 September 2024

PRASA appeals against court instruction to return material belonging to land occupiers

Last week, the Western Cape gave PRASA 24 hours to return the group’s belongings or build them temporary housing

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News | 11 September 2024

Government stepped in at eleventh hour to save basketball tournament

The tournament, which started later than scheduled, is underway in Pretoria and ends on Saturday

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News | 11 September 2024

Pensioners have to pay people to fetch drinking water from streams

Taps in this municipality have been dry for years

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News | 11 September 2024

Cars destroyed by fire in Free State government pound

Owners find their cars burned to cinders

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Brief | 10 September 2024

City of Cape Town pushes for plan from PRASA to manage commuter rail

Legal correspondence over finalisation of rail agreement exchanged

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News | 10 September 2024

PRASA accused of contempt of court

The rail agency was ordered to restore shelter to people it evicted from Cape Town Foreshore in August

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Brief | 10 September 2024

Health department misses another deadline to provide nurses with uniforms

The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November

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News | 10 September 2024

Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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News | 9 September 2024

Woman in wheelchair narrowly escapes death in Dunoon shack fire

Nearly 50 people left homeless

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Brief | 9 September 2024