In his State of the Nation address earlier this year, South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, promised that a total of 98 new schools would be completed by the end of March 2013. The promise was false. Researched by Julian Rademeyer
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“Amazingly, even the Beeb can get it wrong!” writes Gill Moodie on her blog, Grubstreet, which carried our recent report on sharks.
Pravin Gordhan says citizens can access information on the Treasury website. Ruth Becker explains why this is harder than he claims.