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Musicians in “Little Jazz Town” want Gayton McKenzie to fix their broken arts centre

Komani jazz legend Mlungisi Gegana blames the Eastern Cape arts department for the collapse of the centre

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News | 3 July 2024

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Khayelitsha women want to start a clothing factory

“We want others to see that as women, we can create our own opportunities and succeed,” says founder of sewing business

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News | 3 July 2024

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City of eThekwini pays millions for a handful of useless toilets and showers

A private company is charging the City R250,000 a month for 12 toilets and 12 showers at homeless shelters and hardly any of them are working

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News | 2 July 2024

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Bold and colourful designs at Khayelitsha Fashion Week

Designers from across the Cape Flats showed their creations at Artscape

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News | 2 July 2024

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Arm-wrestling pulls record number of contenders to national champs

The tournament was held in Paarl at the weekend

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News | 1 July 2024

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Eskom to close its community service centres in Khayelitsha and Bellville

City of Cape Town condemns decision and says there is a “notable increase” in complaints from customers supplied directly by Eskom

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News | 28 June 2024

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Gauteng non-profit organisations reject findings of province’s forensic probe

Six out of 13 drug rehabs previously funded by the Gauteng Social Development Department are now “under investigation”

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News | 27 June 2024

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Here’s why people with green ID books are struggling with SASSA’s new verification process

Many beneficiaries of the monthly R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant might not be paid

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News | 26 June 2024

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Namaqualand community raises the alarm over copper mining in their small town

The Department of Mineral Resources will visit Concordia in July to assess the mine’s compliance with dust mitigation and other issues

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News | 26 June 2024

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We have no engineer to build your houses, official tells Kariega protesters

R334 blocked by shack dwellers for the second time in a month

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News | 25 June 2024

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Premier apologises for Gauteng government’s non-profit funding crisis

About 300 representatives from organisations across the province travelled to Johannesburg to meet social development officials and the Premier

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News | 24 June 2024

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Gauteng government buys newspaper space to praise MEC

MEC Mbali Hlophe won’t say how much the province spent on the advertorials

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News | 24 June 2024

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Workers describe appalling conditions at Eswatini mine

“To live, I had to quit”

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News | 21 June 2024

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Controversial auditing firm appointed by Gauteng Department of Social Development

Department acknowledges that the appointment of Open Water, which also probed the Ace Magashule Free State housing scandal, was irregular

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News | 21 June 2024

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“I had to beg for my child’s maintenance money”

The Department of Justice’s payment portal, MojoPay, has suspended electronic payments since May due to suspected fraud

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News | 20 June 2024

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SASSA’s new ID verification process sparks alarm

Biometric identification has been introduced to fight fraud, says agency

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News | 19 June 2024