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In response to news of layoffs at SA’s passenger rail agency, the United National Transport Union said that workers have been paying for corruption at the state utility for years.
Damaging winds are expected in parts of the Western Cape while severe thunderstorms with heavy rain persist in five provinces, according to the South African Weather Service.
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The Eastern Cape Department of Transport says “ghost operators” are negatively affecting its scholar transport programme. Several deserving pupils had been battling to be included in the programme owing to lack of funding.
In a suffocating Durban courtroom on Thursday, security mogul Ferrel Govender watched his final chance at freedom evaporate in the stifling 27-degree heat.