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 ...

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