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Renowned cartoonist to move to Cape Town to finish his life’s work

Mogorosi Motshumi is finishing two graphic books

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News | 7 March 2025

Minister issues tender for 12-month temporary lottery licence

Critics say this favours Ithuba, the current operator

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News | 6 March 2025

Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card

Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely

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News | 6 March 2025

My five-hour wait for treatment at Mamelodi hospital

Gauteng Health MEC has said Mamelodi Regional Hospital meets National Health Insurance standards, but my experience was not good

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News | 6 March 2025

Benoni pensioners ask City to scrap millions of rands of debt

City of Ekurhuleni says Actonville rental tenants collectively owe R33-million

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News | 6 March 2025

My chaotic train journey from Johannesburg to Durban

“It is obvious PRASA was not prepared for this journey” says frustrated commuter after long-distance train breaks down several times

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News | 5 March 2025

More than 20 dead and hundreds displaced in KZN floods

Sithembiso Mbutho died crossing the Mthwalume River. Residents have been pleading for the government to build a bridge

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News | 5 March 2025

“We were told to stop everything immediately”: Lesotho HIV programmes collapse after USAID decision

Fear of a surge in new infections as antiretroviral medicines become harder to get

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News | 5 March 2025

About 1.9-million people still need to swap gold cards as SASSA deadline looms

Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”

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News | 4 March 2025

New plant discovered in Stellenbosch

“Miracle” iris emerges after decades under a pine plantation

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News | 4 March 2025

Lottery secretary resigns after pocketing R6-million while on suspension

Nompumelelo Nene, suspended two years ago, faced 145 disciplinary charges

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News | 4 March 2025

US funding cut ends vital HIV programme for orphans

In some parts of the country HIV testing was dependent on US money, so testing has just stopped

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News | 3 March 2025

Durban residents threaten to stop paying rates

More than half of eThekwini municipality’s water revenue is lost to leaks, theft and unbilled consumption

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News | 3 March 2025

Forestry Department awarded R140-million tender to dodgy security company

Investigation finds the company submitted a fraudulent document in its bid but got the contract

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News | 3 March 2025

Court blocks former Lottery official from receiving money after sale of his luxury home

The house and other properties he owns were paid for with lottery money

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News | 28 February 2025