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Investigation into the fire that engulfed the Bloemfontein City Hall Photo: SAPS

Bloemfontein City Hall fire investigation underway

Investigations are underway following the fire that engulfed the Bloemfontein City Hall. According to reports, Mangaung Metro municipal employees who were on strike had a...
Police discover massive cocaine haul in Villiersdorp Photo: SAPS

One of the biggest drug hauls in South Africa

In what is believed to be one of the biggest drug hauls in the country. Police in Villiersdorp in the Overberg seized 253 boxes...
Farmers help Police make an arrest Photo: SAPS

Farmers help police to arrest six suspects on a farm

A collaborative effort by farmers and police in Wolmaransstad resulted in the arrest of six male suspects on a farm on 20 June 2017. The...

A public protector’s job is to make sure people stick to...

South Africa’s Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has directed a parliamentary portfolio committee to initiate proceedings to amend a clause in the country’s Constitution that...

Why is the KZN healthcare system collapsing

When public health institutions cannot assist cancer patients due to lack of essential equipment and lack of doctors, it means we are in trouble....

How we can rid ourselves of State Capture and put Zuma...

The Public Protector's (PP) office should be abolished. Under Thuli Madonsela, the office did brilliant work, even under difficult circumstances and with a...

Unpacking radical economic transformation

Radical economic transformation is not a break from existing government policy nor does it represent a new and uncertain path. Rather it is an acceleration...

More South Africans receive grants than have jobs – a recipe...

There are more people receiving social grants in South Africa than there are people with jobs. This is the finding from the latest South...

South Africa economy now pyramid scheme

More people in South Africa now have social grants than there are people who work in the economy. It appears from a report by the...

Boeremag convicted persons submit an appeal to Chief Justice

Of the convicted persons in the so-called Boeremag case, a petition has been made to the chief judge of the constitutional court claiming that...

Municipalities in dire condition

The management of most municipalities is in such a dire condition that Kimi Makwetu, the auditor-general (AG), could not give them a clean audit...

Farm invaders arrested in the Eastern Cape

A group of people claiming that a land dispute from as early as 1976 remained unresolved, took the law into its own hands and...