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“Pot” Stemmet faces charges over theft of Lottery-funded equipment

Machinery removed from “minstrel museum”

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News | 12 December 2024

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Makana’s immigrant-owned spaza shops remain closed

Makana authorities shut the shops two weeks ago citing violations of various regulations

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Brief | 12 December 2024

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Gauteng government’s buried corruption investigation (part one)

Forensic Audit into R500-million corruption in Department of Social Development was hidden. Non-profit organisations paid the price.

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News | 11 December 2024

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Epileptic woman has to sleep on concrete floor at hospital

Eastern Cape health department says Uitenhage Provincial Hospital has too few beds for increased demand

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Brief | 11 December 2024

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Legal delays threaten survival of African Penguins, say conservation groups

Activists say that the litigation to protect the birds’ feeding grounds has been dragged out for months by the state, despite the urgency of the situation

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News | 11 December 2024

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Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens

German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces

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Brief | 11 December 2024

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Sexual harassment complaint against Eastern Cape Judge President set for January

But the public will not have access to all the evidence

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Law | 10 December 2024

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Angry residents confront Johannesburg Water officials

People from Westbury, Westdene, Claremont, and Hursthill want a permanent solution to their water woes

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News | 10 December 2024

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Reading is Kwaai: high school teacher starts mobile library for learners

Nigel Mortley takes books to Cape Town schools that do not have libraries

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News | 10 December 2024

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Upington farmers are desperate for water

They are receiving little help from the municipality

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News | 10 December 2024

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Protest opposite Holocaust and Genocide Centre in Cape Town: call for ceasefire in Gaza

The picket marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

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Brief | 9 December 2024

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Twelve years and counting: Rail theft case to continue after court victory for state

Case involving top PRASA official and theft of 42km of railway line has stalled for at least 21 months

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News | 9 December 2024

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Our justice system is grinding to a halt

Simple cases are taking years and years to be finalised

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Analysis | 9 December 2024

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Fentanyl is here: South Africans test positive for potent opioid

Preliminary research shows people are using fentanyl, a lab-made opioid over 30 times as potent as heroin, responsible for thousands of deaths in the US

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News | 9 December 2024

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SA schools clinch top spots at international netball tournament

Paarl Gimnasium won gold and Leifo Iziko Combined School won bronze in Singapore

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Brief | 6 December 2024

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Here’s how an SRD beneficiary spent their R370 grant

We joined Willem Witbooi from George while shopping on Black Friday

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News | 6 December 2024

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