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Battle over land in KwaZulu-Natal

Since 2022, people have been trying to occupy land in Rocky Ridge in KwaDukuza

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Feature | 5 November 2024

How government is hindering its own drug policies

A program supplying sterile injection equipment was stopped for months in Cape Town

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Feature | 5 November 2024

Storm at SA Weather Service over dodgy tenders

This vital service is vulnerable to collapse

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Feature | 31 October 2024

Promised land is a battleground: inside a Cato Manor informal settlement

Murder and fear stalk eKhenana shack dwellers

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Feature | 22 October 2024

Alarming rise in HIV among drug users as government fails to implement policy

Needle programs are officially supported, but the state often obstructs them

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Feature | 21 October 2024

How government abandoned a multi-million-rand community dairy farm

After catastrophic floods, Minister Nomakhosazana Meth introduced a mysterious investor to the farm without any due diligence

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Feature | 16 October 2024

Follow the water: tracing Lesotho’s uncertain water supply to Johannesburg

The long-term viability of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project faces various threats

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Feature | 11 October 2024

Paris Olympics: Lottery steps in at 11th hour to help fund Team SA

Stringent conditions means money can only be spent on athletes, not officials

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Feature | 5 August 2024

Mpondoland dagga growers left out to dry

Six years after the Constitutional Court judgment, small-scale dagga growers are sliding deeper into poverty while businesses profit in South Africa’s “cowboy” cannabis industry

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Feature | 29 July 2024