The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure conducted an oversight visit at the Telkom Towers complex on ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

Premier Phophi Ramathuba promised that former employees of the Great North Transport bus company would start receiving their ...

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Now, she’s getting evicted. On 19 August, she received notice to vacate her residence by 30 September. This was later ...

While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which mines may not blast. For instance, a mine’s blasting operations may no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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