{
  "id": 14912464,
  "title": "R27,8m Defence Department pothole machines sit idle for five years amid SIU probe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/r27-8m-defence-department-pothole-machines-sit-idle-for-five-years",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T08:24:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2026-10-16-r278m-defence-department-pothole-machines-sit-idle-for-five-years-amid-siu-probe/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Defence Minister Angie Motshekga says 90 pothole-repair machines worth R27.8 million remain held as evidence in an ongoing SIU investigation, leaving their future use or disposal undecided.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}