Feature
How government is hindering its own drug policies
A program supplying sterile injection equipment was stopped for months in Cape Town
Feature | 5 November 2024
Storm at SA Weather Service over dodgy tenders
This vital service is vulnerable to collapse
Feature | 31 October 2024
Promised land is a battleground: inside a Cato Manor informal settlement
Murder and fear stalk eKhenana shack dwellers
By Greg Arde
Feature | 22 October 2024
Alarming rise in HIV among drug users as government fails to implement policy
Needle programs are officially supported, but the state often obstructs them
Feature | 21 October 2024
How government abandoned a multi-million-rand community dairy farm
After catastrophic floods, Minister Nomakhosazana Meth introduced a mysterious investor to the farm without any due diligence
By Daniel Steyn and Joseph Chirume
Feature | 16 October 2024
Follow the water: tracing Lesotho’s uncertain water supply to Johannesburg
The long-term viability of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project faces various threats
Text by Sean Christie. Photos by David Southwood.
Feature | 11 October 2024
Paris Olympics: Lottery steps in at 11th hour to help fund Team SA
Stringent conditions means money can only be spent on athletes, not officials
Feature | 5 August 2024
Mpondoland dagga growers left out to dry
Six years after the Constitutional Court judgment, small-scale dagga growers are sliding deeper into poverty while businesses profit in South Africa’s “cowboy” cannabis industry
Feature | 29 July 2024
Dust in the air: Lack of transparency over Gauteng farming project funding
A number of organisations that received funding from the Gauteng Department of Social Development through the Daracorp non-profit, say Daracorp never delivered on their promises
By Joseph Bracken, Raymond Joseph, Kimberly Mutandiro and Daniel Steyn
Feature | 27 July 2024