Western Cape schools feel the squeeze after cuts in teacher posts

Teachers and principals tell GroundUp how their schools are coping

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News | 31 January 2025

Former Lottery boss is fighting to keep the proceeds of his crime, says SIU

Alfred Nevhutanda is trying to overturn a presidential proclamation that authorises the SIU to investigate corruption at the Lottery

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News | 31 January 2025

Affordable housing to be built on contested Sea Point site, says provincial government

Announcement by MEC Tertuis Simmers comes after a decade of battles

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News | 30 January 2025

Protest outside Delft community health centre after baby’s death

The health department says the centre cannot treat patients who need specialist care and the child was referred to Tygerberg Hospital

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News | 30 January 2025

Tense standoff between police and Kliptown tenants

City Power officials chased away by angry group

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News | 30 January 2025

Top KZN official could face criminal charges after tenders probe

Provincial supply chain management director Musa Zondi was fired earlier this month

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News | 30 January 2025

Limpopo villagers protest over “one-nurse clinic”

The department has now temporarily closed Valdezia clinic

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Vhembe’s farmers suffer as roads deteriorate

Farmers say their livelihoods are threatened by poor road maintenance

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Landfill site meant to serve Mthatha villagers left to vandals

R32-million was spent and the site was supposed to give the community a considerable rental income

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Missing pumps, broken pipes: Limpopo villagers’ constant fight for water

Tshakhuma families used their own money to connect to the water supply, but it’s still not working

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Villagers block roads in northern KwaZulu-Natal

Silonjane villagers say they’ve been sidelined

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Brief | 29 January 2025

Stopping health funding in Africa weakens America

This is an opportunity for President Ramaphosa to lead

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Opinion | 29 January 2025

Night studies pay off for Dunoon matriculant

Sange Dastile studied in the early morning in the one-room house he shares with his mother and brother. Now he’s off to Stellenbosch University to study medicine.

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News | 29 January 2025

Housing protest closes N2 in Eastern Cape

Residents from Dutywa informal settlements dating back to the 1990s demand services and houses

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Brief | 29 January 2025

Lottery bosses turned to State Security Agency to investigate leaks

But things didn’t go the way they wanted

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News | 29 January 2025

Press ombud rules on News24’s coverage of Gayton McKenzie’s Olympic jaunt

Inaccuracies gave misleading impression, says McKenzie. But when will there be a proper account of how and why R800k was spent?

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Law | 28 January 2025