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Service Delivery Crisis:Power Cuts and Water Shortages Cripple Winburg’s Local Economy,Winburg Residents Decry Endless Outages as Businesses Suffer

 A profound sense of despair and simmering anger has taken hold in this historic Free State town, as a catastrophic collapse in basic service delivery pushes residents and local businesses towards a breaking point. What was once sporadic inconvenience has devolved into a relentless cycle of darkness and thirst, with endless electricity outages and chronic…

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Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane: Only 4,858 Learners Remain Unplaced for 2026 Academic Year

Gauteng Education MEC, Mr. Matome Chiloane, announced today that the Department has made substantial and accelerated progress in resolving the critical annual challenge of placing learners for the 2026 academic year. With schools set to reopen on 14 January 2026, the number of unplaced Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners has been drastically reduced to 4,858. This…

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Deadline Shift: Residents Get More Time to Switch From Prepaid to Postpaid With City Power

In a significant administrative concession, City Power has announced a six-month extension to its controversial mandate requiring non-vending prepaid residential customers to switch to post-paid billing systems. The new deadline, now set for 30 June 2026, replaces the original year-end cutoff of 31 December 2025, granting hundreds of thousands of households a much-needed breather to navigate…

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Parliament Prepares for High-Profile Testimonies on Justice System Infiltration; Paul O’Sullivan, Robert McBride Among Witnesses in Ad Hoc Committee Hearings

The air in Parliament’s committee corridor is thick with a tension that rivals that of the most heated budget debates. Here, however, the currency is not rand, but truth—or at least, competing versions of it. The newly constituted Ad Hoc Committee on the Infiltration of the Justice System, a creature born of overwhelming public pressure…

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Tensions Escalate as US Moves to Intercept Russian-Bound Oil Ship

The grey Atlantic swelled beneath a brooding sky, a neutral witness to the confrontation unfolding on its surface. The FSS Petr Velikiy, a hulking, Russian-flagged Aframax tanker, cut a steady path northeast. In its belly, 700,000 barrels of crude oil sloshed—cargo acquired, according to hastily filed manifests, from a shadowy mid-sea transfer with a vessel linked…

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Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza: A Steady Presence Bringing Hope and Relief to Ekurhuleni Residents

 In the heart of South Africa’s industrial and logistical hub, a distinct sense of pragmatic calm has begun to settle over the City of Ekurhuleni. This shift is widely attributed to the steady, hands-on leadership of its Mayor, Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, whose methodical and visible approach to governance is gradually rebuilding public trust and instilling a renewed…

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“Name Names or Stay Silent” – Malema Fires at Vague Judicial Accusations;EFF Leader Challenges Accusers to Present Facts, Not Posture

 In a characteristically combative session of Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating alleged state capture and judicial interference, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Commander-in-Chief Julius Malema launched a scathing rebuke against what he termed “cowardly” and “politically convenient” insinuations of corruption within South Africa’s judiciary, demanding that accusers either present concrete evidence or forever hold their peace. The fiery…

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