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POLICING FAILURES ARE EMBOLDENING CRIMINALS
Daily Maverick
|January 30, 2026
The South African Police Service fails South Africans almost every day.
If it is not illegal immigrants occupying buildings illegally, it’s something else. Recently, British American Tobacco announced that it would be closing a manufacturing plant in South Africa and focus on importing cigarettes. People are shot at and kill
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Tannie Poppie is back baking at her Karoo roosterbrood stand
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2 mins
January 30, 2026
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Sharné Jacobs is moulding SA's next skating superstars
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1 mins
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TRUMP ANGERS GUN RIGHTS GROUPS
US President Donald Trump said this week that Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by a federal agent during a confrontation in Minneapolis, should not have been carrying a gun, comments that put him at odds with gun rights groups, one of the Republican Party's most loyal voting blocs.
1 min
January 30, 2026
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Factionalism, verbal fisticuffs and theatrics are not getting SA anywhere
Politicians behaving badly while they're supposed to be investigating endemic police corruption are doing South Africans a disservice. By Marianne Thamm
4 mins
January 30, 2026
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POLICING FAILURES ARE EMBOLDENING CRIMINALS
The South African Police Service fails South Africans almost every day.
1 min
January 30, 2026
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SA film and TV industry in freefall
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2 mins
January 30, 2026
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Poverty turns the school run into a game of Russian roulette
On my morning walk today, I passed a young child of about 10 years old, neatly dressed in school uniform, his Vaselined face gleaming in the morning sun as he waited for his school transport.
2 mins
January 30, 2026
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Weighing up the pros and cons of RAs and tax-free investments
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2 mins
January 30, 2026
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Street style centres Qatar migrant lives
Photo series uses fashion as a lens to portray marginalised people in Doha on their days off. By Aparna Jayakumar
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