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Under the effluence: The sewage treatment plant serviced areas in what was then Bophuthatswana, and today falls under Tshwane metro, but it is now derelict. Photo: Andries Sibanyoni

Klipgat residents left high and dry

Flushing toilets were installed in backyards in the North West, but they can’t be used because the sewage has nowhere to go

Madibeng has a ‘blatant disregard for the law’

The local municipality irregularly spent at least R443.8-million according to the auditor general’s latest report

Tough love: Teenagers need to be informed and need to have access to contraceptives.

Hot-headed Smangi spoils for a scrap

Speaking up before diplomacy is wayward cousin’s specialty.

More to Brits protests than meets the eye

Lootings, shootings and blockades of burning tyres show the mounting frustration in North West townships over poor service delivery.

Madibeng residents to march over ongoing water shortages

Residents in several parts of the Madibeng municipality will march to the municipal offices to protest over a water shortage.

Dissatisfaction with the failure to deliver adequate services often results in protests, with Johannesburg being the country’s protest capital. Photo: File

Mothotlung: Fourth person dead after protests

Following violent clashes over a water shortage in Mothotlung, another person has died after reportedly being shot in the head with live ammunition.

Three people died this week in confrontations with police following a service delivery protest over water.

Water restored to most parts of Mothotlung

Following protests in Mothotlung, water has been restored to most parts of the area, says the North West premier’s office.

Editorial: Muddying the waters

The tragedy of Brits’s lack of access to clean water is that people had to die before anyone took any notice.

Mothotlung water shortages shrouded in murk

Stunned Mothotlung residents suspect that dirty politics is to blame for the deaths of three people protesting against the township’s lack of water.

North West condemns Mothotlung protester killings

The North West’s public safety portfolio committee has condemned the killing of two protesters in Mothotlung, near Brits, allegedly by police.

Mthethwa, Modise try to calm Mothotlung

The police minister and North West premier have asked Mothotlung protesters to remain calm after police allegedly shot and killed two demonstrators.

North West police confirmed that two protesters were shot dead and two wounded during a service delivery protest.

IPID investigates Mothotlung protesters’ deaths

The IPID is probing the deaths of two people in an impasse between protesters and police during a service delivery strike near Brits.

Two people killed in protest in Mothotlung

Two people have been killed and two more injured in a stand-off between protesters and police during a service delivery picket.

The once thriving Nyala Game Lodge, built on community land near Brits, now lies vacant. (Karishma Dipa)

Ruined Brits lodge sparks community ire

A prominent Nafcoc member is embroiled in a dispute with two Brits community property associations.

From social to silence, everybody is catered for

When you are childless you don’t want to hang out with families, particularly those with noisy children in hyper-drive brandishing melting ice creams.

Madibeng consultants cost millions

Madibeng consultants cost millions

A bankrupt North West municipality spent more than R7-million within eight months on two sister companies to help with its financial fortunes.

Cheetah to be fitted with prosthetic leg

A two-year-old cheetah, who had her paw mangled in a crude snare, is to have a prosthetic leg fitted in a ground-breaking operation by animal surgeons in South Africa. Betty Blue…

North West man guilty of ‘grossly’ abusing children

A North West father charged with sexually abusing and neglecting his sons was found guilty in the Brits Regional Court on Thursday. Magistrate Louis Matthee found the 45-year-old…

‘Dogs are better than a CAT scan’

American animal behaviourist Kirk Turner and South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are establishing a dog training centre in the dusty district of Brits…

Cosatu to make sure farm workers can vote

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will campaign to ensure that farm workers are able to vote in the coming election, Cosatu president Willie Madisha told the funeral…