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Rooiwal Wastewater Plant repair to cost R4bln

The government has announced that the estimated repair and upgrade of the Rooiwal Wastewater Plant will cost about R4 billion. The Rooiwal Wastewater Plant discharges has been identified of the dirty water in Hammanskraal. It discharges sludge to the Apies River, which flows into the Leeukraal Dam.  The Temba Water Treatment Works takes the water from the dam for treatment and then distributes it to the Hammanskraal residents, who have been hard hit by the cholera outbreak. A 2019 tender […]

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De Zorzi set to lead SA ‘A’

The South Africa A squad left the country on Wednesday night for their tour to Sri Lanka, where they will face the hosts in three one-day and two four-day matches starting from Sunday. The 15-man squad will be captained by Proteas batter, Tony de Zorzi, under the guidance of Test head coach Shukri Conrad. Most of the team have spent the last week in Pretoria, where they have been preparing for the tour at the CSA Centre of Excellence. De […]

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Origin of the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal still unknown

Seven new cholera cases have been confirmed in Tshwane, taking the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 99. Kanana in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, has been hardest-hit. Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, confirmed this earlier on Wednesday at a media briefing on the department’s efforts and interventions in response to the cholera outbreak. The disease has so far claimed 23 lives in Tshwane and one in the Free State. The Department says it has seen a drop in the number […]

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Equal Education slams DBE for pit toilet crisis that’s still gripping SA schools

Youth advocacy group, Equal Education, says the Department of Basic Education has lost all political will to eradicate pit toilets at public schools.The organisation's Tiny Lebelo spoke to YNews where several organisations affiliated with the National Youth Coalition gathered in Soweto this afternoon."There are kids as young as four years old dying in pit latrines. That is really not safe, they are not providing them with a conducive learning environment," said Lebelo.She says South African children are in desperate need […]

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Netball SA takes World Cup trophy to Soweto

With 57 days to go until the 2023 Netball World Cup that will be hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, the tournament's trophy spent Wednesday in the city of Johannesburg as part of the Gauteng trophy tour. https://twitter.com/Ntsako_Mkhari_/status/1663841866608001024?s=20 The trophy started the day at the Mayoral Chambers in Braamfontein, where it was delivered by Netball South Africa President, Cecilia Molokwane. It then moved to the offices of the Department of Sports, Arts, and Culture in the Joburg CBD […]

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ANC to challenge ATM’s appeal on Phala Phala saga

The African National Congress (ANC) says it will be opposing the African Transformation Movement (ATM)'s application to overturn the Western Cape High Court ruling on the president's Phala Phala matter. ATM approached the appeals court in a bid to overturn the ruling which upheld parliament's decision to set aside the independent panel report into the theft that happened on the President's farm in 2020. They claim that the president misled the country on the farm matter and that the ANC […]

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SARS given 30 days to reconsider request for access to Zuma’s tax records

The Constitutional Court has declared sections of the Promotions to Access of Information (PAIA) and the Tax Administration Acts (PAA) invalid. It says sections 35 and 46 of the PAIA and sections 67 and 69 of the tax act are unconstitutional. The court says the total prohibition of access to an individual’s tax records on the grounds that it is necessary to encourage tax disclosure is not a justifiable limitation of the rights to access to information and freedom of […]

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SA’s murder rate has reached war zone levels, laments Action Society

Civic group, Action Society, says the murder rate in the country has reached war zone levels. The group's Director of Community Safety, Ian Cameron, made the remarks in reaction to the fourth quarter crime stats that were released by Police Minister, Bheki Cele, and his high-ranking officials in Cape Town today. The latest stats have painted somewhat of a bleak picture on how crime has increased. It shows a 3.4% increase to the murder rate after 6 289 people were […]

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