The City of Tshwane’s Bronkhorstspruit plant sent out water without chlorine for 3 weeks, and 408 people got sick, most of them children under 4. The city’s first statement came the day after it closed the plant, and the warning the law requires came 25 days after the chlorine stopped. This article puts the dates next to each other, gives the mayor’s own account of why the chlorine ran out, and tests the 3 claims going around: cholera, a water tanker mafia and sabotage.

White South Africans may not apply to lease a state farm. The rule is the first line of every advert the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development publishes, 216 of them since 2023. Lex Libertas raised it 6 days after President Ramaphosa promised 2.5 million hectares of state land to black farmers. This article reads the adverts, the policy behind them, and what the President, Ronald Lamola and a parliamentary committee say about racism in South Africa’s laws.

Akademia’s new R3.2 billion campus at Mooiplaats, east of Pretoria, is ahead of schedule and privately funded. Naledi Pandor, Jonathan Jansen and Carl Niehaus object to it. This article goes through what is being built, who pays, what the critics said, and how Afrikaans left the public universities one court case at a time.

Fikile Mbalula wants the ANC to review the DA’s place in the Government of National Unity. Without the DA, the GNU holds exactly 200 of the 400 seats. This is what Mbalula said on camera, what the ANC’s own written version left out, and what the DA can and cannot force if it walks out.

Communications Minister Solly Malatsi wants a new SABC funding model by 31 March 2027. Every public option described so far, from a household levy to a grant out of tax, draws on your money, and the collectors being considered include SARS, municipalities and banks. This is what is on the table, and how you would pay under each option.