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SAPS is drowning in unsolved dockets

There were 1.9-million unsolved cases by the end of the 2024 financial year

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News | 12 December 2025

Broken promises: Sarah Baartman Centre is a case study in government failure

Hundreds of millions spent and a decade behind schedule

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News | 11 December 2025

Living on R2,320 a month: Here’s how a pensioner spends her grant

“Sometimes by the 15th of the month, the groceries are all done,” says 61-year-old Noah Libbie

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News | 11 December 2025

Botched permits spoil start to crayfish season

West Coast small-scale fishers demand answers from fisheries department

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News | 11 December 2025

Clinic staff are extorting immigrants to access life-saving medicines

Immigrants say they are being charged for ARVs, chronic medication and baby immunisations at some Gauteng clinics

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News | 10 December 2025

After the shelter: Cape Town’s urgent need to house homeless people

Shelters and Safe Spaces are only stop-gap solutions. Transitional accommodation and support is needed, say experts.

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News | 10 December 2025

Lesotho’s Parliament blocks debate on explosive hospital report

The wife of the foreign affairs minister features prominently in the report

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News | 9 December 2025

Tshwane residents get eviction notices for Christmas

Many people living in municipal building say they cannot afford rent elsewhere and fear they will end up on the streets

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News | 8 December 2025

Thabo Bester delays trial with six court cases

Prison escape trial, originally set down for February 2025, postponed to July 2026

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News | 5 December 2025

Eastern Cape villagers finally get water, but only for a few days

Water scheme was restored, but two villages are back to having no water

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News | 5 December 2025

Cape Town city council approves plan to sell Woodstock Hospital

Residential development planned, including affordable housing

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News | 4 December 2025

Payments to sick miners in Lesotho resume after fraud scare

Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases reports fraud of R1.4-million

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News | 4 December 2025

Nkandla villagers demand a police station

Mfongosi Satellite Police Station has been abandoned

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News | 4 December 2025

We rode Metrorail in Cape Town to see if it has improved

While there are still problems, the service is much more reliable than a few years ago. And it’s much cheaper than any other commuter transport.

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News | 3 December 2025

Eskom starts environmental assessment for a third nuclear power station

Thyspunt in the Eastern Cape and Bantamsklip in the Overberg are proposed sites

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News | 2 December 2025