Brief

Thousands of SASSA grants to be withheld this week

Affected beneficiaries must visit a SASSA office to update their details, or risk having their grants being suspended

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Brief | 6 May 2025

Alarming increase in attacks on social workers

“It was a calling for me, but the calling didn’t include me being in danger”

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Brief | 29 April 2025

Families who were moved for the 2010 World Cup are still living in their “transit camp”

Residents of KwaDabeka camp implore the eThekwini municipality to hear their pleas

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Brief | 29 April 2025

Gold Card deadline cancelled

Postbank temporarily stops issuing Black Cards

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Brief | 24 April 2025

SASSA’s new biometric tests

People without IDs have to do it

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Brief | 24 April 2025

Thousands of teachers march against budget cuts

SADTU warned of strike action should the government continue slashing social spending

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Brief | 24 April 2025

In photos: Hillbrow remembers Pope Francis

Pope honoured for speaking out for vulnerable people

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Brief | 23 April 2025

Constitutional challenge to ARTsolar’s gag order

Whistleblowers argue their right to freedom of expression has been violated. AmaBhungane has applied to join the case.

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Brief | 22 April 2025

Crèche owners march in Joburg demanding changes to by-laws

“The by-laws are too strict”

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Brief | 15 April 2025

R24-million spent on Indwe stadium with little to show for it

Two contractors later, the stadium is far from complete

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Brief | 14 April 2025

Immigrant workers face dismissal after winning CCMA case

CCMA ruled that M&N Waste must pay minimum wage, now workers have been suspended

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Brief | 11 April 2025

Immigration Advisory Board appointed for the first time in a decade, says Schreiber

13-member Board will be advising the Home Affairs minister on matters relating to immigration policy, strategy, and implementation

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Brief | 4 April 2025

School children in Vhembe wake up at 4:30am to fetch water

Water is not reaching households despite millions of rands spent on water projects

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Brief | 4 April 2025

Taxi drivers protest in Kariega, demanding urgent repair of collapsed bridge

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Babalwa Lobishe says a contractor will be appointed this week

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Brief | 31 March 2025

Fed up with promises of housing: Langa residents march to Cape Town Civic Centre

Some of the protesters still live in apartheid era hostels

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Brief | 28 March 2025

Hundreds march to Johannesburg mayor’s office demanding houses

Many say they have been waiting 30 years for government housing

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Brief | 27 March 2025