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SAPS won’t return to Telkom Towers despite millions spent

The complex was evacuated in February 2024 amid safety concerns

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News | 26 November 2025

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Lesotho and South African organisations at loggerheads after USAID funding cuts

The Mosepele Foundation Development Forum has accused Mothers2Mothers South Africa of withholding funds but the latter says it has no choice

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News | 26 November 2025

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“Sink hole” families to be moved

Dozens of Khayelitsha families have been living above a collapsing sewer pipe

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News | 26 November 2025

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UCT astronomer’s photo of neutron star makes headlines

Kelebogile Gasealahwe’s work could shed light on jets emitted by these stars

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News | 25 November 2025

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Calls for Nestlé to remove sugar from baby foods

Swiss investigative outlet claims Nestlé is misrepresenting sugar content

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News | 25 November 2025

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Festival showcases disabled artists

Singers, dancers, painters at three-day Unmute ArtsAbility Arts Festival in Cape Town

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News | 25 November 2025

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Lesotho to release hundreds of prisoners to reduce overcrowding

The government says it is busy implementing recommendations made 22 years ago by the Judge White Commission into prison conditions

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News | 24 November 2025

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Orange Farm’s crime fighting patrollers

Community members have lauded efforts by the crime patrollers to make their streets safer, with over 400 people already part of the initiative

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News | 24 November 2025

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In photos: Thousands protest to end violence against women

Government classifies GBV and femicide a national disaster, but it’s unclear what policies will follow from this

Ashraf Hendricks, Ihsaan Haffejee, Ishmael Mabena, Johnnie Isaacs, Thamsanqa Mbovane and Tsoanelo Sefoloko

News | 21 November 2025

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GBV victims travel nearly 200km to reach nearest state shelter

A local resident has now turned her own four-room home into a safehouse for many women in Beaufort West who have nowhere to go

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News | 21 November 2025

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SASSA expects to save R341-million by tightening screenings

Treasury has added new conditions to improve the monitoring of grants

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News | 20 November 2025

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Extortion gangs terrorise Cape Town’s immigrant shop owners

Vigilantism on the rise as people accuse the police of failing them

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News | 20 November 2025

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Unfenced army base outside Makhanda claims another life

At least six people have been killed or injured by explosives from the largely unfenced 6 SA Infantry Battalion training area

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News | 20 November 2025

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US and Lesotho strike five-year health funding pact

Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the country’s health system

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News | 19 November 2025

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How a group of landowners brought the Agulhas Plain back to life

The Nuwejaars Wetlands Special Management Area was established in 2008

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News | 19 November 2025

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Bo-Kaap residents call for Airbnb to be regulated

Long-standing residents say they are being pushed out by short-term rentals

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News | 19 November 2025