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IT’S US OR THE SACP: ANC ISSUES TEN-DAY ULTIMATUM
In an intensification of the battle in the alliance over the upcoming local polls, the ANC national executive committee (NEC) has given its members and leaders with dual affiliation to the SACP ten days to choose which organisation they will campaign...
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ZUMA’S GHANA TRIP SPARKS SALARY MESS
The MK Party in Gauteng was unable to pay constituency staff salaries last year after R2.6-million in party funds were diverted to finance a trip to Ghana undertaken by party president Jacob Zuma – triggering a financial crisis that has since spiralled...
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MORE TROUBLES FOR MASEMOLA
President Cyril Ramaphosa moved quietly to prepare for the possibility that his police chief might not survive the storm when speculation first surfaced last year that National Commissioner Fannie Masemola could face arrest – in connection with matters...
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TREASURY WANTS R88BN UNCLAIMED CASH PILE
Insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions are sitting on R88-billion in retirement fund benefits belonging to hundreds of thousands of potential beneficiaries they have been battling to trace. Now National Treasury wants to take over...
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RUPERT LOSES R1.3BN VALUATION BATTLE
Billionaire business mogul Johann Rupert was dealt a major blow after his luxurious Leopard Creek estate lost a R1.3-billion property valuation dispute with Nkomazi Municipality in Mpumalanga. The Valuations Appeal Board for the district of Ehlanzeni...
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ROW AS MANTASHE RAILS AT LESOTHO PM
Minerals and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has sparked a diplomatic and political row with Lesotho after alleging the country’s prime minister held an unauthorised meeting with illegal miners in South Africa, claims that have been met...
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ANC PLOTS DA DEAL IN EKURHULENI METRO
The political realignment in the City of Ekurhuleni is gathering pace, with the fallout between the ANC and the EFF opening the door to a possible reconfiguration of power that could bring the DA into the governing arrangement. Sunday World has...
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NYDA OFFICIALS BLOW R1M ON NEW YORK TRIP
The chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency – the government entity created to fund youth entrepreneurship activities – sent its executive chairperson and four other officials on a seven-day trip to New York at a cost of...
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STEENHUISEN EXIT: QUESTIONS LINGER
DA leader John Steenhuisen was cleared of misusing party funds but now faces a fresh internal reckoning as questions over his conduct remain, and accusations he may have brought the DA into disrepute still hang over his head. Senior party sources told...
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A mother’s world shattered as she says goodbye to her child
As tears stream down her face, a mother clings to the comforting embrace of a neighbour – two souls united by grief in the aftermath of an unimaginable loss. The accident between a scholar transport minibus and a truck claimed 14 innocent lives.
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A mother’s world shattered as she says goodbye to her child
As tears stream down her face, a mother clings to the comforting embrace of a neighbour – two souls united by grief in the aftermath of an unimaginable loss. The accident between a scholar transport minibus and a truck claimed 14 innocent lives.
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FLOODS AFTERMATH
A woman waits after receiving a food parcel from Gift of the Givers in Mbaula village near Giyani yesterday. The village was one of the hardest hit by floods following heavy rains last week.
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