The minister responsible for the Lottery has made it clear that he will not be forced into making hasty decisions. This is ...

In a petition more than 400 people have called on Winde to release the Tafelberg site for social housing despite the recent ...

Hundreds of environmental activists from various organisations took to the streets of Sandton calling for a boycott of the ...

At least 50 people attended an interfaith vigil at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening to mark one year of war in ...

Former South African boxer Stephen Msimanga has high hopes for the 25 youngsters he trains daily in his backyard in Orlando ...

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

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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 volume of heroin seized by the South African police has been increasing. First slowly since the late 1990s, and then ramping up from about 2013. The increase is partly driven by a change in ...

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 UIF online portal has been down for six weeks, including uFiling, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and Virtual ...

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 ...