People wait months to be verified for R370 SRD grant

SASSA blames the Home Affairs online system

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News | 22 October 2024

Crime statistics: who are we to believe?

SAPS and Stats SA figures are wildly different

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Analysis | 22 October 2024

Over 70 people left homeless after Khayelitsha fire

Fire victims say they do not have the means to rebuild their homes

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Brief | 21 October 2024

Seventh postponement in Durban police brutality case

The trial into the death in custody of Regan Naidoo in 2018 has still not begun, this time because of a complaint before the Legal Practice Council

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News | 21 October 2024

Talks on penguin litigation fail to break deadlock

But environment minister and bird conservation groups both say an out-of-court settlement is yet possible

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News | 21 October 2024

Informal miners burnt to death during police raid: Families demand justice

Several miners died and scores more sustained severe burns during an Operation Vala Umgodi raid in August

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News | 21 October 2024

Alarming rise in HIV among drug users as government fails to implement policy

Needle programs are officially supported, but the state often obstructs them

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Feature | 21 October 2024

Donkey carts stand idle as tourism dies in Cederberg village

Heuningvlei was devastated by flooding for two consecutive years but the residents are determined to keep their town alive

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News | 21 October 2024

Social grant fraud: SASSA needs to act, not deny

Instead of wrongly accusing us of illegal hacking, SASSA should take urgent action to fix the extremely serious problems we described

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Analysis | 18 October 2024

Government losing 1,800 firearms a year to criminals

Firearm-related murders in South Africa have risen to 34 per day

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News | 18 October 2024

Wupperthal: the town where you can sleep outside on your stoep

But jobs are scarce in this small Cederberg mission town

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Photo Essay | 18 October 2024

Court interdicts are being used to stifle protest

Mining companies are especially guilty

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Opinion | 18 October 2024

Criminal charges for previous head of Gauteng Department of Social Development

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

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News | 17 October 2024

Public Works workers picket through the night in Durban

They want jobs after their contracts were terminated in July

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Johannesburg community plays cat-and-mouse with City Power

City Power removed and confiscated 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at R6-million

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Helping hand offered to woman feeding children in East London

The Lunchbox Fund and the Development Bank have committed to providing meals to Zandile Mtungata’s organisation

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Brief | 17 October 2024