Elderly people march in Pretoria, demanding houses

Some have been waiting since 1996

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Brief | 12 February 2025

Free State students return to class after protests pause

But SRC warns protests could start again if the university’s management fails to follow through on its commitments

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Brief | 12 February 2025

South African book at centre of raid on Jerusalem bookshop

Educational Bookshop, opened in 1984, is the best-known bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem

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News | 12 February 2025

Bishopscourt land claimants to finally break ground on housing development

This comes 20 years after their claim was officially granted

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News | 12 February 2025

Students disrupt classes amid housing crisis

NSFAS blamed for student accommodation challenges

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News | 11 February 2025

Nyanga and Khayelitsha train services suspended because of fire

Metrorail says services should be restored in two days

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Brief | 11 February 2025

Protest erupts after neighbourhood without power for weeks

KwaNobuhle councillor urges residents to attend ward meetings

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Brief | 11 February 2025

Khayelitsha school still without stationery

Western Cape Education Department has urged the formation of a school governing body to help deal with issues at the school

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Brief | 11 February 2025

Northern Cape learners can’t go to class because schools have no money

Lack of funding for food and electricity has forced at least one hostel to close

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Brief | 11 February 2025

Over 15,000 South African health workers’ jobs are at risk as US cuts aid

Some harm reduction and LGBTI services have already closed

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News | 11 February 2025

Judge fights to clear her name

Johannesburg High Court Judge Denise Fisher says she acted lawfully and in line with the Constitution

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Law | 11 February 2025

1,500 Lesotho health workers sent home after US aid suspended

Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services

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News | 10 February 2025

Gauteng Department of Social Development ordered to explain its funding decisions

Unfunded non-profit organisations to file a combined summons

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News | 10 February 2025

18 vehicles burnt in Nyanga

This comes nearly a month after a deadly shooting at the township’s taxi rank.

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Brief | 10 February 2025

This SASSA office opens earlier to deal with “high influx” of clients

A community worker says she sleeps outside the office to secure spaces for elderly or disabled people

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News | 10 February 2025

Patients have to get water brought to them at this Durban hospital

Municipality is rationing water to large parts of the city

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Brief | 10 February 2025