South Africa

How bureaucracy prevents people from getting houses

Supply isn’t coming close to meeting the demand for state-subsidised housing

Blind SA says Ramaphosa is shirking his constitutional obligations

Legal action taken to compel the President to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill into law

Minister says he won’t bow to pressure on the Lottery

How business can help end homelessness

Homelessness is a shared, fixable problem

Vhutshilo Mountain School offers lifeline to AIDS orphans

Limpopo school has been going strong for nearly 20 years

Relocation of Langa rail line occupiers delayed by regulations

Rezoning application to move people living next to the Central Line has taken more than a year

Vital water project halted because municipality failed to pay contractors

School where reservoir was being built blocks construction

Women dig their own pipeline after years of frustration with eThekwini water supply

Many families in Matikwe north of Durban were left out when pipes were installed

Heroin use has spread as prices plummet

South Africa’s central position in a drug smuggling route between West Asia and Europe plays a role

In this village some people say they drink just one cup of water a day

Water infrastructure was installed in uMsinga in KwaZulu-Natal years ago but has never worked

Africa Oil Week: Mantashe slams “foreign-funded” activists

Protests held against fossil-fuel industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Joburg’s water woes are self-inflicted

The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem

UCT vigil marks a year of war in Gaza

Protesters renew call for boycott

New blasting limits set for mines - at last

Chief Inspector of Mines publishes South Africa’s first mine blasting standards

Interview: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde answers questions on social housing

Winde explains why R500-million meant for housing went unspent

Food meant for poor families is rotting in a Gauteng food bank

The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it