Hundreds of workers marched in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban on Monday to mark World Day for Decent Work. In Cape Town ...

Fed-up with delays in construction, a Free State school has halted the building of a municipal reservoir on school premises.

A food bank in Gauteng has 5,600 food parcels for poor families in its warehouse, but it has not received the funds it needs ...

At least 50 people attended an interfaith vigil at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening to mark one year of war in ...

Former South African boxer Stephen Msimanga has high hopes for the 25 youngsters he trains daily in his backyard in Orlando ...

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While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which ...

For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing ...

Across the country, potholes are an all too familiar and frustrating feature of South Africa’s roads. Archive photo: Barbara ...

Villagers in uMsinga north of Pietermaritzburg battle daily for water. Many get up in the small hours of the morning to queue at one of the very few borehole pumps. Some have stopped planting crops ...

The UIF online portal has been down for six weeks, including uFiling, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and Virtual ...

More than 17 million people applied for the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in September 2024, according to the latest figures supplied by the South African Social Security Agency ...