RC 260825SAfmCathy Mohlahlana
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
A tense, accountability-focused morning examined the Matlanga Commission, social grants, apartheid-era prosecutions and severe service-delivery failures in Dipalising.
- 07:17
Vusumuzi Kat Matlala’s legal team threatened to withdraw after his lead counsel fell ill, but the commission rejected delay tactics and ordered his testimony to continue.
- 07:03
The Supreme Court of Appeal is hearing government’s challenge to expanded access to the R370 social relief grant, including the R624 means-test threshold that campaigners say excludes millions.
- 06:57
Researchers welcomed the reopening of NIH funding to meritorious South African projects after an 18-month freeze, though new rules may exclude work that could be conducted in the United States.
- 08:57
Dipalising municipality officials acknowledged a R160 million sewage-pollution fine and a R19 million repair contract, while residents described prolonged water and sanitation failures in Zenzele.