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R15-million Covid housing project ruined by fraud

Fraud accused in 2020 Talana construction case still to be brought to court

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News | 12 July 2023

Public Protector probes government’s 2022 flood relief efforts

Auditor-General recently revealed that KwaZulu-Natal only spent R251-million of the R5.8-billion budget allocated in the aftermath of the 2022 floods

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News | 12 July 2023

Refugees face “no hope” service from Home Affairs

Dozens queue, but the reception office in Gqeberha only serves 15 asylum seekers a day

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News | 12 July 2023

Thabo Bester escape: state expects to call about 18 witnesses

Another accused is granted bail of R10,000

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News | 11 July 2023

Burned toddler: woman to appear in court on Friday

More than 1,000 people protest in Langa after assault on four-year-old

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News | 11 July 2023

DNA bungling delays justice for family of slain mother

“Three years later, the suspect is roaming outside”

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News | 11 July 2023

Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack

Oyama Meje and two adults died on Sunday night in Phola Park informal settlement fire

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News | 10 July 2023

Two die in Khayelitsha shack fire

Victims of Blowy informal settlement fire were meant to have been relocated

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News | 10 July 2023

Immigrants in Diepsloot say they are scapegoats for crime

Complaints of police harassment

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News | 10 July 2023

Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest

SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha

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News | 6 July 2023

MPs furious that families have still not been moved off Cape Town’s railway tracks

SCOPA chair tells authorities to “shape up or ship out”

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News | 6 July 2023

Thabo Bester saga: Bail granted to three more accused

Judge rules they are not a flight risk and unlikely to interfere with witnesses

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News | 6 July 2023

Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer

Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead

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News | 5 July 2023

City of Tshwane probes illegal suburb

Leeuwfontein has been developed without subdivision or approval by local authorities. Now residents want services

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News | 5 July 2023

Cape Town’s Central Line will be fully operational before the end of March 2024, says PRASA

Relocation of people living along the track is still unresolved

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News | 5 July 2023