Articles for Joseph Bracken
A R24-million sports centre and nowhere to train
Kokstad’s pool is empty and the soccer field is too hard
News | 4 March 2026
Municipality changes tune after video shows Ensure guards beating man
For months, the Denis Hurley Centre has been alerting officials to complaints about the security company
News | 23 February 2026
More than R36-million in lottery money has been spent on this old age home in nine years. But it is still not ready
The home in eDumbe, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, is one of several projects under investigation by the SIU
By Joseph Bracken and Raymond Joseph
News | 17 February 2026
Unfinished lottery-funded old age home in Mpumalanga is being looted
But National Lotteries Commission says it can’t pay for security
By Raymond Joseph and Joseph Bracken
News | 13 February 2026
KZN flood victims stuck in emergency housing, three years later
Hundreds of families are living in apartment buildings leased by the City of eThekwini
By Tsoanelo Sefoloko and Joseph Bracken
News | 11 February 2026
Corruption-riddled Lottery projects incomplete despite promised R65-million
After three years of no progress, their fate is still to be decided according to the NLC
By Raymond Joseph and Joseph Bracken
News | 9 February 2026
Families wait for houses, two months after floods
Hundreds of homes were damaged by floods in uMshwati in November
News | 23 January 2026
Unemployed teachers camp outside KZN education department
Department ignores them
Brief | 19 January 2026
Durban mayor urged to investigate assaults on homeless people
People we spoke to describe being beaten with sjamboks by Ensure Security’s masked guards. The company denies this.
News | 18 December 2025