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latest news & developmentsBid for slain Imam Haron’s family to see justice
Fifty years ago, the anti-apartheid activist was killed in police custody. His family fought to survive after his death, and now they want justice.
Mixed emotions as soldiers return to the Cape Flats
Police Minister Bheki Cele made good on his week-old promise to send the SANDF to the Cape Flats to secure the area
Community police break ranks in Flats
Volunteers call for an independent police manager and soldiers to help stop Western Cape murders
Sports clubs eyed for low-cost housing in Cape Town
Sports clubs are paying the City of Cape Town less per year to lease prime land than it costs to rent a shack for a month
How the UN’s new strategy could help development goals in the Eastern Cape
In 2015, countries committed to the UN’s sustainable development goals in an effort to end, for example, poverty, hunger and inequality
The horror of abuse taking place in SA’s bedrooms
Babes Wodumo’s beating is public knowledge but thousands more suffer the same fate. Five women tell their stories
Residents go to court for dissolution of ANC-led Makana Municipality
The Unemployed People’s Movement has filed an application for a re-election to take place in the troubled ANC-led municipality
Churches want code against cons
Those who wish to f leece the public will be held to account, say church leaders
CRL Rights Commission to investigate ‘resurrection’ pastor
Pastor Alph Lukau of the Alleluia International Ministries church in Sandton, Johannesburg, faces a summons from the CRL Rights Commission
Budget 2019: EFF and DA detail key issues for Mboweni to prioritise
Opposition parties have added their input ahead of the presentation of the budget speech
Cape Town private property developers on a ‘civic capture’ crusade, say residents
Concerns are growing in three Cape Town communities that developers are muscling into local associations to get them to approve development plans
Duduzane Zuma culpable homicide case postponed
In the meantime, the NPA has decided to provisionally withdraw corruption charges against Zuma
Justice for Cradock Four delayed
Despite an assurance last year that the case was proceeding, the son of one of the four men who were assassinated believes the ANC is blocking it
Ramaphosa urged to establish judicial inquiry into lack of apartheid prosecutions
Imtiaz Cajee, the nephew of murdered anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol, will recommend an inquiry to probe the capture of the NPA and SAPS
Ramaphosa praises former ANC presidents in Jan 8 statement
President Cyril Ramaphosa did, however, hint at the strain that has mired the ANC in recent years