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Fruit workers strike over union recognition
Dispute over numbers at Villiersdorp company
By Greg Dor
News | 26 August 2026
Joburg’s dirtiest river may lose its only champion
Environmental organisation KlipSA faces closure
News | 26 August 2026
In this town, old women have to relieve themselves in a field
Some families have been living in Aloe-T informal settlement in Komani, Eastern Cape, since 1997
News | 26 August 2026
Fired for being foreign: how employers gave in to March and March threats
The Casual Workers Advice Office has recorded a sharp rise in reports of xenophobic labour practices in Gauteng
By Seth Thorne
News | 25 August 2026
World’s largest research funder lifts ban on South Africa
Many clinical trials were halted, and many researchers were retrenched when the NIH stopped funding
By Liezl Human
News | 24 August 2026
Justice minister refers R415-million IT contract to SIU and Hawks
Minister Kubayi witnessed system failures during an unannounced visit to the Pretoria Master’s office
By Seth Thorne
News | 21 August 2026
We’re not criminals, say Transnet land occupiers
Housing activists Ndifuna Ukwazi head to court try to stay the eviction of more than 160 people by 30 September
News | 20 August 2026
How much did judges really spend on their Durban conference?
Travel agency quoted the Office of the Chief Justice R9,000 for return plane tickets from Johannesburg to Durban
News | 20 August 2026
Government admits it unlawfully withheld billions from schools
Withholding billions of rands from public schools was unconstitutional, but the schools won’t get the money back
By Gcina Ntsaluba and Chuma Ntshingana
News | 19 August 2026