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

Lottery spent over R1-million on lawyers to stop GroundUp exposing corruption

Attacks were also launched on the integrity of our reporter

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News | 17 October 2024

Ombud lambasts Legal Practice Council

The council and its disciplinary committee not only failed to act in the public interest but also contributed to injustice, says Judge Siraj Desai

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Law | 17 October 2024

Six-year-old rescued from pit toilet in Eastern Cape school

At Mampondo Primary School, 135 learners and eight staff members share two pit toilets

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Brief | 17 October 2024

KZN villagers use social grants to fix broken taps, pipes and pumps

Ndatshana residents say they were without running water for seven years

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Brief | 17 October 2024

PRASA dealt with the Foreshore evictees in bad faith, says Ndifuna Ukwazi attorney

The rail agency has finally returned the group’s belongings, but in poor condition, say the evictees

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Brief | 16 October 2024

How government abandoned a multi-million-rand community dairy farm

After catastrophic floods, Minister Nomakhosazana Meth introduced a mysterious investor to the farm without any due diligence

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Feature | 16 October 2024

Community blocks R3-million park project, demands public participation

Tsomo residents and businesses say they were never consulted about the site

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News | 16 October 2024

Using radiation to stop the traffic of rhino horns

The Wits Rhisotope project hopes to help conservation efforts

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Science | 16 October 2024

What I learned on my journey through breast cancer

In Breast Cancer Awareness Month we can all do something to help

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Opinion | 16 October 2024

Education department fails to pay water and electricity bills: parents shut down school in protest

Failure to pay Msunduzi Municipality is a violation of human rights, say parents

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Brief | 15 October 2024