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Water tankers everywhere in Joburg, yet surprisingly hard to find
Johannesburg deploys dozens of tankers daily during outages. We tried to find them
By Seth Thorne
News | 26 June 2026
Lesotho seeks compensation and economic support from South Africa
Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices
News | 26 June 2026
Important advance in TB treatment
South African researchers publish trial results in world’s leading medical journal
News | 25 June 2026
Lottery budgets nearly a quarter of a billion rand for legal fees
This is the cost of rooting out corruption, Commissioner Jodi Scholtz tells Parliament
News | 25 June 2026
Dispute stalls closure of hazardous dumpsite in Maseru
Court ordered shut down of the Tšosane dumpsite delayed after council cancels M27.3-million contract
News | 24 June 2026
Chaos in KZN as immigrants rush to pop-up repatriation sites
A disused government building in Pietermaritzburg has been occupied
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 23 June 2026
Water is so close, yet so far for this Joburg neighbourhood
Thembelihle residents struggle daily to get water, but they watch dozens of water tankers fill up and then drive past
Text by Seth Thorne. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.
News | 23 June 2026
More than 7,000 Malawians in Durban have been sent home, says Leon Schreiber
Another 8,000 people are yet to be processed — and more are arriving
News | 22 June 2026
Lesotho opposition leader faces treason charge
Tšepo Lipholo is accused of links to alleged military training camps on farms in South Africa
News | 22 June 2026