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How to buy your dream house using public money

Documents show that Lottopreneur Lesley Ramulifho used at least R5 million from a Lottery grant to pay for his luxury Pretoria house

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Feature | 31 October 2019

A day in the life of a municipal sewerage worker

“When I started I had to fight off nausea”

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Feature | 28 October 2019

Soweto’s girls and boys play competitive soccer together

“My teammates treat me with respect and dignity. I’ve never felt harassed or experienced any form of violence and abuse.”

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Feature | 24 October 2019

How a lawyer used a Lottery-funded project as his personal ATM

Lesley Ramulifho paid for fancy restaurants, high-end interior decor and work on a Porsche using money meant for a drug rehab

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Feature | 22 October 2019

“People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade

Part two in a series on the Pondoland dagga growers

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Feature | 14 October 2019

The trials and joys of travelling in overloaded malaichas to Zimbabwe

The minibus taxis with their trailers filled with goods offer a glimmer of hope for desperate people trying to make a living

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Feature | 10 October 2019

Viewfinder: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality in SA

Public records, government data, whistleblowers and victim testimony have converged to show how crimes by police officers have not been investigated properly

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Feature | 7 October 2019

City lawyers tell activist organisation to stop helping 80-year-old man facing eviction

Eviction of Kenneth Blaine escalates ideological battle between local government and Reclaim the City

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Feature | 7 October 2019

Legalisation is killing our market, say small-scale dagga growers

Part one in a two-part series on the Pondoland dagga growers

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Feature | 4 October 2019

Township residents occupy city old age home

CPOA says it intended to upgrade Observatory building, but new residents say they will not move

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Feature | 1 October 2019

Cape Town tennis academy is changing lives - and making champions

“People were hesitant to fund something like kids playing tennis when there might be so many other pressing problems in South Africa”

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Feature | 30 September 2019

Cape Town’s rivers are open streams of sewage, yet the City is not spending its budget

Water in the Black River is as dirty as untreated sewage

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Feature | 26 September 2019

Lottery whistleblower pays a high price

But evidence supports his allegations

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Feature | 19 September 2019

How do we reduce shack fires?

City’s poorest residents use both insurance and technology to fight fires

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Feature | 10 September 2019

Eyewitnesses describe police beating a man who had a mental disability

IPID appears not to have interviewed key witnesses

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Feature | 13 August 2019