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Clinic renovation stalled because health department hasn’t paid contractor

Patients are being treated at old church buildings because the clinic has been closed since 2022 for renovations

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News | 17 June 2025

New crèches may have to close because of late payments by education department

Subsidies still not being paid on time in KwaZulu-Natal

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News | 13 June 2025

Mass lay-offs at Lesotho garment factories as US tariffs bite

After the Trump administration’s threat of 50% import duty on Lesotho, orders have dried up and production lines have shut down

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News | 13 June 2025

Social grants go unpaid as beneficiaries struggle with SASSA’s system

Activists say they get dozens of complaints weekly about the online verification process

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News | 12 June 2025

New border control plan could harm asylum seekers, say critics

The One-Stop Border Post Bill aims to speed up trade and travel, but critics say protection for immigrants is inadequate

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News | 11 June 2025

No money to upgrade Cape Town’s rundown hostels

We visited hostels in Gugulethu which were overcrowded and falling apart

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News | 10 June 2025

Court battle looms between City of Johannesburg and traders

SERI has sent a letter of demand to the City over container removals

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News | 9 June 2025

Families were promised RDP homes. Instead they were left for 15 years without services

Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements says construction will happen later this year

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News | 9 June 2025

New book by Edwin Cameron gives practical steps to reform prisons

“The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs”

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News | 8 June 2025

Pensioners desperate for clarity after not receiving grants in June

SASSA is introducing stricter verification measures

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News | 7 June 2025

Postbank has yet to apply for a banking licence

Why Postbank made everyone change to a Black card, and then suddenly did a U-turn

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News | 7 June 2025

Pensioner has to live in shack despite ‘owning’ RDP house for 17 years

A 2012 Corruption Watch report stated that the houses “were invaded because they were left empty for a long time”

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News | 6 June 2025

Luxury home of Lottery “kingpin” frozen by Special Tribunal

Non-profit organisation headed by Alfred Sigudhla received nearly R70-million from the Lottery

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News | 5 June 2025

100-year-old Flagstaff school is falling apart

In 2013 the Flagstaff Comprehensive High School was promised a share of a R195-million project. But nothing happened

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News | 5 June 2025

Cabinet sent basic income grant plan back to the drawing board

Meanwhile the Department of Social Development will ask for another extension of the Social Relief of Distress grant, MPs told

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News | 5 June 2025

Eastern Cape teacher accused of beating learner with a hosepipe

Department of Education warns teachers against using corporal punishment to discipline learners

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News | 4 June 2025