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Proof: ‘Parallel governance’ — Sundays River citrus farmers fill the cracks in municipal service delivery

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T19:22:09Z","headline":"‘Parallel governance’ — Sundays River citrus farmers fill the cracks in municipal service delivery","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"dailymaverick","url":"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-10-06-service-delivery/","v":1}

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SHA-256

cb128b590f66405e29183e1ca3912a5c1564746351efa80ffd207f054009c7f8

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970221, mined 2026-10-06 19:49 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 19:28 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 19:28 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-cb128b590f66.json prints cb128b590f66405e29183e1ca3912a5c1564746351efa80ffd207f054009c7f8. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-cb128b590f66.json and headline-cb128b590f66.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-cb128b590f66.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.