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MPs demand probe into “entire social grant payment system”

Portfolio committee chair Bridget Masango says officials found guilty of fraud or misconduct must be brought to book

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News | 16 January 2025

“Many women are going to starve with their families” says widow as CWP contracts end

Update: COGTA extends Community Works Programme contracts terminated for workers aged 55 and older late on Thursday night

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News | 16 January 2025

FNB closes bank accounts of dodgy lottery-funded “activist”

Tebogo Sithathu is under investigation by the SIU over a series of multimillion-rand grants

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News | 16 January 2025

How the SRD grant system has been defrauded

Poor systems enabled it

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News | 27 December 2024

Announcement of new lottery licence operator postponed - again

The National Lotteries Commission will use its reserves to continue funding good causes if lottery ticket sales are suspended

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News | 24 December 2024

Kakamas residents live on the edge of a water emergency

The town’s only water treatment plant is near collapse

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News | 20 December 2024

Sports organisation hides how R17-million Lottery funding was used

SIU is probing grants paid to Physical Education Institute of South Africa

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News | 20 December 2024

Riding Cape Town’s Southern Line

Metrorail has improved from its worst days but some problems still need to be fixed

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News | 20 December 2024

Mister Sweet workers face disciplinary hearings for strike

Simunye Workers Forum says it will fight these proceedings at the CCMA

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News | 20 December 2024

Hundreds of court judgments are late

The Office of the Chief Justice has published its reserved judgments list, but only for the first two terms of 2024

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News | 19 December 2024

R20-million water project fails to quench Limpopo villagers’ thirst

Households now rely on a single diesel-powered borehole or have to buy water

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News | 19 December 2024

Limpopo villagers demand action on failing clinic

Residents of Valdezia want a new clinic, open for longer hours

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News | 18 December 2024

District Six Museum marks 30 years of memories

Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid

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News | 17 December 2024

Rape of 7-year-old child: mother accuses police of being slow to act

Police blame delays on “a shortage of manpower”

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News | 13 December 2024

Promises, promises, but still no proper water supply in Musina

Children do the family’s washing at a broken municipal water pipe

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News | 13 December 2024