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Seven years can be a short or long time, depending on who is in charge of the office of the public protector. Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s tenure was torture, the seven years were like 70 years in bondage.

Everything is broken and/or stolen and that’s it. We are losing 40%-60% of the water we buy from Rand Water.

Many pedestrians walk a long way before reaching these shopping areas enclosed with perimeter brick walls or palisades. Motorists are catered for with convenient entrances and exits. Often fences and palisades are cut or broken to access centres.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie renamed Donald Trump Donald Duck after he avoided the Republican candidate debates.

French philosopher Voltaire wrote: It is important to note that Greek polymath and mathematician Pythogoras left the island of Samos, his home, and travelled to the Ganga in India to learn geometry.

Malema has made it clear to anyone who cares to listen that his vision for 2024 is an absolute outright win, which suggests that he has no ambition to be in a coalition government with anyone and I believe he knows what he is talking about.

On September 13, the department of water and sanitation opened a criminal case against Free State's Nketoana local municipality at Lindley police station for contravention of Section 19 (1) of the National Water Act, Act 36 of 1998.

The SA parliament does not consider or deliberate on pensioner issues during its meetings. Even opposition parties do not show an interest in the plight of pensioners but come election time they’ll be running around seeking the pensioners for their votes. Municipalities have a rebate on services for pensioners.

We are in mourning over the loss of three brave naval officers who perished in an attempted “vertical transfer” on SAS Manthatisi submarine off the coast of Kommetjie in Cape Town.

Let's face it, the ruling party initiated RDP housing project and social grants deliberately. They want the poor to depend on it in order to keep their votes.