It has taken more than a year to rezone land for the relocation of these households living in the rail reserve of the Central ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

This is the first of a four brief series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. It discusses commonly ignored components of health expenditure: provision in workplaces, and medical ...

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 ...

Residents of Saldanha Bay and nearby Vredenburg say red dust pollution from the Transnet Port Terminal, through which iron ore is exported, is staining their homes, cars, trees, roads and even pets.

For two years, small-scale farmers in Citrusdal have battled heavy rains that completely devastated their vegetable crops. GroundUp visited the small farmers again over a year later. The farmers have ...