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 ...

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

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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Eric van Rooy is 69. He grew up in the little town of Wupperthal in the Western Cape, and has lived there most of his life. He worked in the old glove factory for a while before it closed down. Now, ...

Our article on the failures of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system has unfortunately been met with a very defensive response from SASSA.

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 ...

The Legal Services Ombud has castigated the Legal Practice Council (LPC) for failing to act in the public interest and contributing to an injustice. Judge Siraj Desai was scathing of the LPC, its ...