#EveryDropCounts: Hot, windy weather pushes up water consumption: Cape Town – The recent warm weather in the Western Cape has pushed Cape Town’s water consumption up by 36 million litres a day, to 530 million litres of collective consumption. This is 80 million litres above the City of Cape Town’s target of 450 million litres of collective…
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Railway vagrants gives eThekwini municipality a big headache: Durban – The battle continues as the eThekwini Municipality, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), metro police and the SAPS work hand in hand to remove vagrants from Durban’s railway lines. However, vagrants who were removed from the tracks are now living either in the city centre or at Berea Park, opposite King Dinuzulu Park. Thousands of visitors are in the city – Durban hosted the…
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Govt initiatives aimed at curbing gender violence to start in August: On Monday, Minister Responsible for Women in the Presidency, Bathabile Dlamini, officially unveiled a number of programmes aimed at curbing the scourge. ……
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Mother of dead Phalaborwa miner casts doubt on post-mortem results: Shaun Mashego is one six miners who died at the mine last week after a fire broke out while they were underground. ……
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Lesufi: Gauteng ANC task team to look into scrapping of e-tolls: This was among the decisions taken at a provincial conference that elected Lesufi to the post of deputy chairperson in the province. ……
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GPAA: AFU, CCU probing corruption cases involving unclaimed pensions: The agency has also confirmed that over R400 million remains unclaimed by pensioners or their families. ……
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Living on the banks of a river of sewage: Resident Nothobile Sithebe says the stinking water has been running past her home for years. ……
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#LandDebate: ‘You touch the land, you touch the deadly snake’: Mthatha – Public hearings on expropriation of land without compensation were met with concerns and scepticism during public engagements held at Mthatha in the Eastern Cape on Monday. Hundreds of community members, farm representatives and other organisations attended the meeting, with some people coming from other towns. Some community members warned of consequences if…
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Alex taxi boss ambushed at home and shot dead: Johannesburg – Another taxi owner was shot dead at his home on Monday, this time in Alexandra. This death is allegedly related to the continuing turf war over the Mall of Africa route war between the Alexandra Taxi Association (ATA) and Alexandra, Randburg, Midrand Sandton Taxi Association (ARMSTA). There has been high incidences of violences between the two rival…
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Ex-Golden Grove principal still teaching amid R1.3m graft probe: Cape Town – Controversy has erupted around the retirement of a southern suburbs school principal while an investigation was under way for his alleged involvement in R1.3 million that allegedly went missing from the school’s coffers. The Western Cape Education Department confirmed it was investigating management and governance-related complaints against Golden Grove Primary school former principal Tony Austen. The probe was opened last year after the school governing body (SGB) reported irregularities and suspicions of financial mismanagement. It is understood that the…
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