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Elections 2024: What the major political parties say about social grants

We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi

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News | 2 April 2024

Broken streetlights have led to a spike in crime in this Cape Town suburb

But the City says repairs are difficult because of safety risks in Tafelsig

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News | 2 April 2024

Tourists return to KZN south coast, but water problems persist

After a decade of water cuts, wealthier areas have insulated themselves, but poorer areas remain at the mercy of a failing system.

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News | 2 April 2024

Police drive into woman, break her pelvis, shoot rubber bullets into crowd and drive off

Nolwazi Tokhwe from Capricorn is being treated in hospital. She also has a fractured spine and injured right arm.

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News | 28 March 2024

New CEO promises brighter future for state’s media development agency

But the MDDA’s last clean audit was in 2020/21 and the board chair, flagged by the Nugent Commission, is still in office

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News | 28 March 2024

Damning report on “state of disrepair” of many police stations

The committee recommended that SAPS finds a way to be less dependent on Public Works

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News | 28 March 2024

Centre for quadraplegics may have to close if Gauteng funding cuts are implemented

Gauteng Department of Social Development says funding decisions will be finalised before the end of March

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News | 27 March 2024

Former PRASA board members should be declared delinquent, says SCOPA chair

Irregular and possibly corrupt security contracts led to the widespread destruction of South Africa’s rail network

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News | 26 March 2024

Cape Town school in the dark because it owes thousands to Eskom

A teacher at Vergenoegd Primary in Delft, Cape Town, says they discovered that the bursar office missed payments from August 2023

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News | 25 March 2024