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Government stepped in at eleventh hour to save basketball tournament

The tournament, which started later than scheduled, is underway in Pretoria and ends on Saturday

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News | 11 September 2024

Pensioners have to pay people to fetch drinking water from streams

Taps in this municipality have been dry for years

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News | 11 September 2024

City of Cape Town pushes for plan from PRASA to manage commuter rail

Legal correspondence over finalisation of rail agreement exchanged

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News | 10 September 2024

Health department misses another deadline to provide nurses with uniforms

The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November

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News | 10 September 2024

Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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News | 9 September 2024

At least 116 children died from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in one year

Conference on hunger hears there’s more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger.

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News | 9 September 2024

Premier Group goes to court to end Mister Sweet strike

Strike at Germiston factory enters fourth week

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News | 9 September 2024

Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

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News | 9 September 2024

Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments

Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January

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News | 7 September 2024

Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

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News | 6 September 2024

UIF online services frozen in court battle

Interim interdict stopped the UIF’s new service provider from rendering IT services

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News | 5 September 2024

Half a billion in unspent funds returned to Treasury by Gauteng department

Auditor-General flags irregular expenditure and insufficient controls in 2023/24 report

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News | 5 September 2024

The three businessmen and the Gauteng social development department’s millions

The department says the Hawks are investigating the sustainable livelihoods programme but will not provide details

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News | 4 September 2024

Seven years of promises but still no stadium

Waterval Stadium in Limpopo is still incomplete though at least R28-million has been spent

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News | 4 September 2024

There are 90 learners to a class in this Limpopo school

Such classes are uncontrollable, says a teacher

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News | 4 September 2024

Security guards picket at another Cape Town hospital

Security guards employed by Golden Security Services in Heideveld say they are owed money

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News | 3 September 2024