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Every few weeks, another accountability headline lands in the feed: procurement under scrutiny, law-enforcement governance questioned, oversight bodies struggling to keep pace with irregular spending. Investigative reporting has framed the pattern less as isolated scandal than as a stress test—repeated exposure of dysfunction without matching correction, and a widening gap where public confidence used to sit ( Daily Maverick ). The Riverside Herald is not covering those…