South Africa|Gauteng

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Stop the killing and intimidation of whistleblowers, demand activists

Hundreds of people gathered at the Union Buildings four years to the day since environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was murdered

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News | 23 October 2024

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Talks on penguin litigation fail to break deadlock

But environment minister and bird conservation groups both say an out-of-court settlement is yet possible

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News | 21 October 2024

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Informal miners burnt to death during police raid: Families demand justice

Several miners died and scores more sustained severe burns during an Operation Vala Umgodi raid in August

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News | 21 October 2024

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Criminal charges for previous head of Gauteng Department of Social Development

Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture department

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News | 17 October 2024

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Johannesburg community plays cat-and-mouse with City Power

City Power removed and confiscated 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at R6-million

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Brief | 17 October 2024

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Ombud lambasts Legal Practice Council

The council and its disciplinary committee not only failed to act in the public interest but also contributed to injustice, says Judge Siraj Desai

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Law | 17 October 2024

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Using radiation to stop the traffic of rhino horns

The Wits Rhisotope project hopes to help conservation efforts

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Science | 16 October 2024

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Understanding the High Court ruling on rape and consent

Minister of Justice opposed the case to have “defence of subjective consent to rape” scrapped

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Law | 14 October 2024

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Government’s “headless chicken approach” to the billion-rand shoddy national police headquarters

The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure conducted an oversight visit at the Telkom Towers complex on Thursday

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Brief | 11 October 2024

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Blind SA says Ramaphosa is shirking his constitutional obligations

Legal action taken to compel the President to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill into law

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Law | 10 October 2024

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Joburg’s water woes are self-inflicted

The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem

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News | 8 October 2024

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Food meant for poor families is rotting in a Gauteng food bank

The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it

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Brief | 8 October 2024

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Tshwane non-profit social housing company in business rescue

Yeast City Housing is fighting for survival with debt of over R130-million

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News | 7 October 2024

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Former SA boxer is training Soweto’s future stars

Stephen Msimanga trains 25 youths in his backyard in Orlando East

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Brief | 7 October 2024

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Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Germiston informal settlement neglected since dawn of democracy

“We have rats that are as big as cats here”

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Brief | 2 October 2024