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Tshwane RDP project trying to clean up ‘inherited corruption from ANC’
Youngsters and informal settlement dwellers have received homes instead of people on the waiting list. → Read More
Metered taxis get their own app
Meter taxi operators want to stay in business and have developed their own taxi app. → Read More
WATCH: Rubber bullets fly recklessly in Eersterust for second time today
Two Citizen staff members are among those injured when police fired rubber bullets on protesters and bystanders in Eersterust. → Read More
Pupil, 12, runs for his life from Eersterust protesters so he can write exams
Among those barred from leaving the community were schoolchildren writing midyear exams. → Read More
DA Gauteng leader witnesses hell of Pretoria refugee centre
Refugees told of the abuse they suffer at the hands of security personnel and officials, while Moodey swears action against graft and fraud. → Read More
VIDEO: Furious John Moodey in ‘fight’ with security at refugee centre
The DA's Gauteng leader is unimpressed with how refugees are 'herded like cattle'. → Read More
School sexual assault case spurs education MEC
The sexual assault of a 12-year-old schoolgirl has prompted Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi to order the investigation of all such assault cases in schools. → Read More
Schoolgirl allegedly stripped naked by classmates after being accused of theft
The alleged assailants have been suspended after allegedly violating the girl sexually. → Read More
Tshwane officials ‘possibly part of cable theft syndicate’
According to a leaked report, the people involved have become so brazen and dangerous that they even use official city vehicles to steal cables. → Read More
MK veterans protect child-rape accused at court
The 77-year-old accused, who allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl after tying her up, was denied bail for his own safety and that of the community. → Read More
Atteridgeville taxi war comes to a head with arrests
Tshwane Metro police arrested five suspects out of a group of 12, who were charged with attempted murder, public violence and taxi violence. → Read More
Shopping centre donates to UP’s missing middle students
Most of these students cannot even tell their parents of their dire daily situation because parents already struggled to get them into university. → Read More
Protest chaos threatens to disrupt EFF’s Pretoria conference
The protesting EFF supporters claimed they did not know the candidates, and they were not the ones they voted for to represent them. → Read More
Malema: At least in SA we are free to call Zuma a butternut head
The EFF leader was dishing out insults on Africa Day, but had particular scorn for the continent's dictators. → Read More
Malema says Khoi-San are the ‘original’ South Africans
On Africa Day, the EFF leader had strong words for those who call other Africans 'makwerekwere'. → Read More
Sentences not the end of the Poppie abuse saga
The Go Purple Foundation plans to investigate and prosecute seven people in Orania who all 'turned a blind eye' to the abuse of the little girl. → Read More
Centurion ‘the best place for parliament’
The area is close to the N1 highway and in close proximity to the Waterkloof Air Force Base, various hotels and restaurants. → Read More
300 elderly Pretoria residents get title deeds
The residents from Ga-Rankuwa and Soshanguve have been on the housing waiting list since early 1994. → Read More
Commission shuts down Gauteng initiation schools
The move is aimed at addressing concerns around criminality, gross malpractices and unfavourable conditions that have crept into the ritual. → Read More
Cele set to get tough on TUT Soshanguve thugs
The imbizo comes after students complained that campus have become a 'mini war zone with multiple cases of women abuse on the rise'. → Read More