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

Over 100 people from ward 105 on the south coast of Durban picketed outside the city hall on Thursday, demanding tap water.

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

Hundreds of residents from Shaka’s Head informal settlement marched on Monday to Kwadukuza municipal offices in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, demanding toilets, water and electricity. The marchers, who ...

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, ...

Here are two unsettling facts apparently meant to assure us that the market for labour is working well. A shopfloor worker at Woolworths would have had to work for more than three years to earn as ...

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police conducted an oversight visit of the police training college in Philippi, Cape Town, on Friday. Committee chair Ian Cameron said there were allegations of ...