Kimberley’s big hole of municipal failure
Sol Plaatje municipality’s speaker and municipal manager were recently appointed despite tainted records
Feature | 10 December 2025
Kimberley: A provincial capital sunk in sewage
Salt pans and lowlands around the town are lakes of filth
Feature | 1 December 2025
Hawks and SIU raid accountants in lottery corruption investigation
Accountants allegedly prepared fraudulent financial statements to get lottery funding
News | 21 February 2024
Judge slams police for refusing to carry out court orders
Some SAPS members have completely forgotten why they are wearing police uniforms, said Acting Judge Ramaepadi
Law | 19 July 2022
Hawks swoop on Northern Cape Lottery offices after whistleblowers’ tip-offs
Seven NLC employees named in the search and seizure warrant including the deputy provincial head
News | 11 March 2022
Court grants order on dodgy multimillion rand Lottery grant
Big win for SIU after President Ramaphosa authorised the investigation of the National Lotteries Commission in 2020
News | 17 February 2022
Kimberley residents fed up with municipality’s handling of water crisis
The city has had rolling water cuts since December
Brief | 15 March 2021
Lottery whistleblower “pressured” to pay IT company to build athletics track
R10 million was paid but no work was done
News | 18 December 2020
“They say we are assaulting people. We say we are blessing them.”
Part two of a three part series on vigilantism in South Africa
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.
Feature | 25 August 2017