Communal toilets overflowing with faeces due to extortion
About a month ago, Sanitech workers were held at gunpoint and extortionists demanded several thousand rand
News | 30 October 2023
Children play among rubbish and rodents at this Dunoon park
City official says a developer is waiting for approval to fund the repairs of Thandabantu Park but suggest moving the equipment to a different place
News | 30 October 2023
Parents fear for children’s safety at this crumbling school
Mntla Primary consists of prefabs from the 1980s
News | 30 October 2023
Welkom municipal workers furious after learning they won’t be paid
A letter signed by the municipal manager states workers may have to wait until the end of October to get their salaries
News | 27 October 2023
Over 100 grannies march in Durban to demand better healthcare and housing
This follows a three-day conference that brought together grandmothers from across the country
Brief | 27 October 2023
Criminal case against former PRASA director kicked down the tracks – again
Mthuthuzeli Swartz was arrested for the sale of 42km of railway line in January 2019
News | 27 October 2023
Life-saving TB drug is now cheaper in South Africa, but not as cheap as it can be
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to drop the price of bedaquiline to the South African government by more than 40%
By Daniel Steyn
News | 27 October 2023
Disability grant applicants sleep outside this SASSA office
SASSA admitted that there had been “technical challenges with the online system” but that these had since been resolved
News | 27 October 2023
Helen Suzman Foundation goes to court to “avert human catastrophe”
The organisation wants an execution order that will protect Zimbabwean Exemption Permit holders
Law | 27 October 2023