More than 300 workers from Premier’s Mister Sweet branch in Germiston will return to work on 11 November, after negotiations ...

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Sinalo Kuse from Bolokondlela village near Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape matriculated in 2021 but has never received her ...

A post mortem examination of the body of Cape Town taxi driver Luvuyo Vimba, who died after a clash with police, has revealed ...

The newly elected Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe ordered the closure of eight immigrant-owned shops on Monday afternoon, in an operation conducted jointly by health and Home Affairs ...

It was in 2003, while photographing the devastating impacts of tik (crystal meth or methamphetamine) in Cape Town’s poor communities, that I first met Turner Adams. With an entire life etched into his ...

More than anything else, Paul Dawid Vogelsang wants his language to be heard on radio, taught and to be spoken. Vogelsang, who is 64, speaks Nama, an indigenous Khoekhoe language that has faced ...

My elderly relative is living in a frail care facility. The staff took her SASSA card to buy "extra things" not provided by the home, like snacks, etc. But they never provide receipts, even after I ...

Some Social Relief of Distress grant beneficiaries approved in October are still waiting for their payment. The delay SASSA says is because of additional fraud checks. Many people who receive the ...

Raw sewage is flowing in the streets of Sithembile township in Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal, where residents have been struggling with water shortages for six months. Most areas in the township have had no ...

The Klip River has many sources. One is a stream that begins under the roads and buildings of Newtown at the southern end of the city centre, emerging above ground next to Albertina Sisulu road where ...

Residents of Zigadini location near KwaBhaca (formerly Mount Frere) in the Eastern Cape are pooling their money to install their own water supply system after years of sharing water sources with ...