Extortionists close down informal businesses in Cape Town

SAPS says fighting extortion is a priority, but won’t provide details on its response

Refugees evicted from UNHCR in 2023 reduced to eating frogs

The families have been living in an old school building in Bronkhorstspruit for two years

Health Minister confident Lesotho can manage without US funding, but jobs are already being lost

And funding cuts are hitting access to HIV tests and medicines

Lottery licence bidder accuses Minister of favouring Ithuba

HCI subsidiary Wina Njalo brought an urgent court application after Minister Parks Tau postponed deadline for new operator

Parliament secretly passed new code of conduct without public comment

Activist group #UniteBehind wants the change declared unconstitutional

R25-million and six years later, Soweto centre still needs millions to be completed

SIU investigates unfinished arts centre backed by music legends Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu

Gauteng High Court proposes mandatory mediation for civil cases

Judges Matter welcomes the move but says more judges are needed

Campaign launched to help stateless people become citizens

Hundreds take part in human rights festival at Constitutional Hill

Quick explainer: what VAT means for you

Deaths, cover-ups and bribes at Zimbabwe’s lawless Redwing Mine

Thousands of artisanal gold miners toil in the dirt in a mine controlled by political elites

Sharpeville: “These politicians just come and create a spectacle”

Residents say Human Rights Day means little in their township

Political will needed to save lives amid USAID funding cuts, say activists

“We will not let our people die” says Zackie Achmat

SASSA explains why it paid grants to 75,000 dead people

Systems are being improved to solve the problem

Former lottery official fails in court bid to unfreeze his pension fund

Judge says former NLC chief risk officer Marubini Ramatsekisa didn’t explain how he could live at an expensive golf estate while claiming to be unemployed

Herd of life-sized animal puppets to travel through Central Africa to Norway

Large-scale public art project to raise awareness about climate change

Removal of illegal connections sparks protests in Khayelitsha

Residents of Social Distance informal settlement demand electricity supply