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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

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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

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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

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Mixed reactions to affordable housing development on Mowbray Golf Course

Some Cape Town residents want the golf course to remain as it is

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News | 28 February 2025

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Philippi families demand electricity

But in order for electricity infrastructure to be installed, the City of Cape Town says, some families must move

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News | 27 February 2025

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Concourt judgment on Tafelberg could change future of social housing

Two weeks before the hearing, Western Cape Government announced the Sea Point property will include affordable housing

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News | 27 February 2025

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Hundreds of Limpopo villagers protest about potholes

The provincial roads department says there’s no budget to complete repairs on the busy D4 linking Elim to the N1

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News | 27 February 2025

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Serious flaws in SASSA system, MPs are told - again

Unclear why same investigators, with unclear qualifications for the job, have presented more or less the same obvious findings to Parliament a second time

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News | 26 February 2025

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PRASA and City rail agreement finally gets going

But Zackie Achmat criticises plan for lacking firm targets, commitments, and timelines

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News | 26 February 2025

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Operation Dudula’s victims demand justice

Litigation against the vigilante group started a year ago

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News | 26 February 2025

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Refugees wait decades for Home Affairs to recognise their families

Despite a 2019 court ruling on “family joining”, spouses and children of asylum seekers are struggling to get documented

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News | 25 February 2025

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Ukrainians protest outside Russian Embassy

“Arbitrary detentions of civilians, torture and rape are widespread” says protestor

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News | 24 February 2025

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Parties hold their breath in battle over R300-million Stellenbosch mountain estate

Judgment has been reserved in an urgent application to halt a luxury development on Botmaskop slopes

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News | 24 February 2025

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Decision on new Lottery operator postponed by a year. But Ithuba’s licence expires in May

No clarity on what happens to lotto ticket sales and NLC grants after expiry

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News | 24 February 2025

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VBS Bank depositors with more than R100,000 receive only a quarter back

Liquidator recovers R617-million, but many investors face bitter payouts

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News | 24 February 2025

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US funding remains frozen for many life-saving services

Despite waivers, court judgments and assurances from the embassy, USAID funding for projects that provide HIV medication has not resumed

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News | 21 February 2025