Summary image for article

Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

By

News | 9 September 2024

Summary image for article

Small West Coast town is the world capital of this delicacy

In photos: Velddrif’s bokkom industry

Text by . Photos by .

Photo Essay | 9 September 2024

Summary image for article

Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments

Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January

By and

News | 7 September 2024

Summary image for article

PRASA ordered to return building materials to land occupiers

Court ruling follows interdict against eviction sought by housing activist organisation

By

Brief | 6 September 2024

Summary image for article

Durban commuters stranded while PRASA and Transnet haggle over repairs

KwaMashu and North Coast lines not operational

By and

Brief | 6 September 2024

Summary image for article

How much worse are coloured plastics for the environment?

Studies are finding more reason to boycott coloured plastic products

By

Science | 6 September 2024

Summary image for article

Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

By

News | 6 September 2024

Summary image for article

UIF online services frozen in court battle

Interim interdict stopped the UIF’s new service provider from rendering IT services

By

News | 5 September 2024

Summary image for article

Eskom office closure in Mpumalanga leaves customers frustrated

Residents still turning up to report electricity supply problems months after Kwagga Mall customer hub closed

By

Brief | 5 September 2024

Summary image for article

Women in Limpopo village had to dig their own water well

Vhembe District Municipality says repairs to faulty boreholes across Elim will be done by end September

By

Brief | 5 September 2024

Summary image for article

Half a billion in unspent funds returned to Treasury by Gauteng department

Auditor-General flags irregular expenditure and insufficient controls in 2023/24 report

By

News | 5 September 2024

Summary image for article

Durban flood victims told to vacate emergency housing

eThekwini Municipality says its planning to rehouse the affected families but can’t assist those who had previously benefitted from RDP projects

By

Brief | 5 September 2024

Summary image for article

The three businessmen and the Gauteng social development department’s millions

The department says the Hawks are investigating the sustainable livelihoods programme but will not provide details

By , , and

News | 4 September 2024

Summary image for article

Basketball tournament gets off to rocky start after bungling

SA boys’ team only had three days with their coach

By

Brief | 4 September 2024

Summary image for article

Seven years of promises but still no stadium

Waterval Stadium in Limpopo is still incomplete though at least R28-million has been spent

By

News | 4 September 2024

Summary image for article

There are 90 learners to a class in this Limpopo school

Such classes are uncontrollable, says a teacher

By

News | 4 September 2024

Most Read

  1. Lottery blocks payment to lavishly funded music event
  2. Spaza shop landlords shocked by R2,200 permit fee
  3. Scenes from a zama zama rescue
  4. Flood victims not welcome, say residents
  5. Diamond mines everywhere but Richtersveld town battles poverty

Our answers to your questions

Latest reader letters

Housing Planning Meeting

This article does not portray the real thing that happened on Saturday. Our people did not walk out… Read more

Please cut us some slack

I personally think identity verification is also a way of committing fraud. SASSA should have done … Read more

Service delivery to Khayelitsha residents

It is a constitutional right to have sanitation and clean water under Chapter 2 of the Bill of Righ… Read more

We must deal with the producers, not the spaza shops.

Instead of chasing spaza shops, South Africans and their government must complain to the manufactur… Read more

Well written article

Thank you for the well written and captivating article. Every sentence kept me wanting to read more… Read more