Thousands in Cape Town and Johannesburg protest against Israel’s year of massacres

Calls for Israel to be isolated, as South Africa was during apartheid

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News | 5 October 2024

After six weeks UIF online system still down

COSATU has called on the labour minister to intervene

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News | 4 October 2024

Minister responds to attack on the Lottery

And NLC Board Chairperson Barney Pityana explains why the Lottery returned R300-million to Treasury

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News | 4 October 2024

Durban residents without water for eight years picket at city hall

Standpipes in ward 105 have been dry since 2016

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Brief | 4 October 2024

Why do potholes occur?

Poor road construction, inadequate drainage and insufficient maintenance are the main causes

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Science | 4 October 2024

Many Cape Town stations are closed to wheelchair users

And the “People’s Train” is inaccessible to many people

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News | 4 October 2024

Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

The public swimming pool in this Eastern Cape town has been empty for four years

Ngcobo residents fear the pool will be vandalised and never reopen

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Brief | 3 October 2024

Citrusdal farmers devastated by two years of floods

But they are determined to start over and revive their vegetable gardens yet again

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News | 3 October 2024

Three of four Shosholoza Meyl train routes halted indefinitely

#UniteBehind believes problems with long distance locomotives is due to corruption at PRASA over the years.

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News | 3 October 2024

The fate of the GNU will depend on what it does to fix collapsing municipalities

The Government of National Unity offers an opportunity to take practical steps

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Opinion | 3 October 2024

Germiston informal settlement neglected since dawn of democracy

“We have rats that are as big as cats here”

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Brief | 2 October 2024

More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September

Most applicants have never had a job

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Brief | 2 October 2024

Housing activists welcome City’s intention to develop Mowbray golf course

For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing

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Brief | 2 October 2024

In photos: the Reclaim the City occupations

Open day at the old Woodstock Hospital and Helen Bowden Nurses Home in Cape Town

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Photo Essay | 2 October 2024