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Workers are battling to collect unemployment benefits despite new technology
UIF App and phone-in system launched in September
By Ella Morrison and Qaqamba Falithenjwa
News | 13 December 2023
Pietermaritzburg station opens but train delayed 10 hours
Passenger rail services were suspended at the station in 2021 due to vandalism and theft
News | 12 December 2023
81-year-old Mthatha widow waiting two decades for her house
Ndenzeni Njwenene first applied in 1999
News | 12 December 2023
Nearly two decades later, Makhaza police station is finally set to open soon
Meanwhile the community is being serviced by a 24-hour patrol and a mobile unit
News | 11 December 2023
Metrorail shack dwellers moved, but to a place without toilets or water
First families moved off Central Line railway tracks
News | 8 December 2023
Male murder rate is a national health priority, say researchers
Medical Research Council study has looked at why 87% of people murdered in South Africa are men
By Daniel Steyn
News | 8 December 2023
Australian company to start seismic survey off West Coast in January
Environmental report acknowledges that seismic blasts, which are much louder than gunshots, can kill fish particularly those with swim bladders
News | 7 December 2023
The informal brick makers of Dordrecht
“We are only working to put food on the table, nothing else” says Tinashe Mandobe who has made bricks in the small Eastern Cape town since 2004
News | 7 December 2023
South Africa needs to spend an extra R535-billion a year to meet climate goals
Climate investments need to jump from R131-million a year, Presidential Climate Commission says
By Liezl Human
News | 6 December 2023