Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture ...

Former Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers in EThekwini municipality have been picketing outside the Durban city ...

An estimated 1,800 state-owned firearms are being lost or stolen every year, entering the illicit market and finding their ...

Mining companies are increasingly using interdicts to stifle protest against their activities, say the writers. The right to ...

Eight staff members and 135 learners are sharing two broken pit toilets at Mampondo Primary School in Sicwenza location, ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

Crime involving firearms and extortion has prevented the municipality, Eskom and SASSA from providing essential services ...

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The Passenger Rail Agency of South (PRASA) has finally complied with an order by the High Court, compelling it to return building materials belonging to people sleeping on Transnet-owned land on Cape ...

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the population of both black and white rhinos has stabilised and even increased slightly since 2021. The white rhino population is estimated to have ...

Ahead of a six-month scheduled stoppage in supply from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), which provides water to approximately one fifth of South Africa’s population, GroundUp’s Sean ...

Parents of learners at Copesville Secondary School in Pietermaritzburg have shut the school down since Monday in protest because the school’s water and electricity have been cut by the municipality.