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Begging to feed their children

Women who beg at traffic lights with their children say they have no other options

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News | 22 April 2025

Court halts further work on luxury Stellenbosch mountain estate

Botsmaskop development stopped, pending a full court review

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News | 17 April 2025

Six distinctions but no ID: Top matriculant’s hope of becoming a doctor crushed

“My mother was a citizen, yet I cannot get an ID” says Emmanuel Ndlovu

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News | 17 April 2025

Solar company changed its story just before gagging whistleblowers

Whistleblower alleges he was tricked into believing he was buying locally made material

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News | 17 April 2025

New gecko species discovered in the Northern Cape

The Gravel Pygmy Gecko lives near Klein Pella in the Khâi-Ma Local Municipality

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News | 17 April 2025

Protesters block major roads in Eastern Cape

Owners of small businesses complain about failures of the Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality

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News | 16 April 2025

Future of Khoisan settlement in Grabouw hangs in the balance

Knoflokskraal has a restaurant, nursery, livestock farming and vegetable gardens, but little water

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News | 16 April 2025

There are taps and flush toilets in this Durban township - but no water

Ntuzuma families buy water from nearby KwaMashu

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News | 16 April 2025

Police unable to interview Cwecwe

SAPS tells Parliament they have been unable to access 7-year-old rape victim

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News | 15 April 2025

Police can’t say why they let an alleged rapist off the hook

Officers dropped him at hospital without questioning him

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News | 15 April 2025

Lesotho gives in, approves Starlink licence

Civic organisation says this is a “sell-out”

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News | 15 April 2025

Damning report on R57-million Buffalo City swimming pool

Years later the pool remains incomplete and a symbol of municipal failure

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News | 14 April 2025

Pensioner who was allocated an RDP house 15 years ago still lives in a mud hut

Free State Department of Human Settlements has promised to help the 75-year-old from Naledi village in Qwaqwa get a house

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News | 11 April 2025

Developer of R300m Stellenbosch housing estate fights back

Botmaskop Fynbos Estate says a court interdict stopping construction will be “catastrophic”

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News | 11 April 2025

Invasive weed is threatening life in Joburg dams

Kariba weed on the surfaces of the dams could kill the indigenous ecosystems

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News | 11 April 2025

Synagogue president apologises for calling for genocide

South African Jews for a Free Palestine call for his resignation

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News | 10 April 2025