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ArticleMonuments to disaster

● After 12 years and R1.2bn, the Free State human settlements department is trapped in a huge low-cost housing development disaster, with a revolving door of failed contractors and no end in sight. Costs have ballooned so much that at one...

By SIPHO MASONDO

ArticleHAPPY MASCOT

South African fans during the first Test of the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series between the Springboks and the All Blacks at Ellis Park in Johannesburg yesterday. The Boks lost 16-33. See Sport.

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ArticleFULL SPEED AHEAD

● Grammy Award-winning musician Black Coffee has scored a major victory in his legal battle with Maserati South Africa, with the Johannesburg high court ordering the luxury carmaker to pay his company R7m over a disputed vehicle deal. The...

Black Coffee’s R7m Maserati win

ArticleCape Town’s All Blacks clash sparks ticket frenzy

● Cape Town is bracing for a packed rugby spectacle when the Springboks face New Zealand at DHL Stadium in Green Point next Saturday. Tickets have been snapped up months ago and desperate supporters now pay double or more on the secondary...

By YOLISWA SOBUWA

ArticleGauteng megacity

● The ANC is mulling an overhaul of municipalities, including a possible merger of Gauteng’s three metros into a “megatropolis”. First deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the structures and boundaries of some of the...

By LIZEKA TANDWA

Article‘Free basic services’

● The ANC wants the almost 30-million South Africans who receive social grants to be automatically added to the indigent list of people who receive free basic services. Instead of them having to apply to receive free water, electricity and...

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