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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The only public swimming pool in Ngcobo near Mthatha, Eastern Cape, has been left empty for four years. The pool was closed in 2020 during Covid pandemic and has never reopened. Built in 1934, the ...

On Tuesday, residents of Good Hope informal settlement marched to the City of Ekurhuleni offices to protest over a lack of services and development after three decades of democratic rule. The crowded ...

A withering attack on the new National Lotteries Commission (NLC) in Parliament last week was led by three men: chair of the trade and industry portfolio committee Mzwandile Masina, former minister ...

“The nice part about what we do is the day that we actually release a bird,” says Jacques Nel, the founder of the Owl Orphanage Rehabilitation Centre. Situated in Velddrif alongside the Berg River, ...

According to the new Local Spatial Development Framework for Cape Town, about 40,000 more people should be accommodated in the inner city by 2040. This is because of population growth and the need for ...