Brief

Flood victims cry foul after food parcels given to other people

The Limpopo premier’s office is urging people left without food aid to notify their ward councillors

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Brief | 4 February 2026

Nkandla villagers share river water with livestock

Communal water tanks installed in 2024 frequently run dry for weeks or months

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Brief | 4 February 2026

Midrand residents protest six-day water outage

Large parts of Johannesburg have been without water

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Brief | 3 February 2026

Nigel pensioners unable to pay municipal arrears

Alra Park pensioners want indigent relief and debt cancellation

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Brief | 3 February 2026

“Gangster” municipality fails to pay pension fund contributions

Ditsobotla Local Municipality has been under national administration since September

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Brief | 2 February 2026

Philippi massacre: families to bury loved ones this weekend

At the memorial service for Mfanelo Songxengo, one of nine victims shot two weeks ago, community members blamed poor policing for the murders

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Brief | 30 January 2026

Film workers blame Pretoria for bringing industry “to its knees”

Protest outside DTIC headquarters

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Brief | 29 January 2026

Parents exhume son’s remains five years after state mistakenly buried him

In 2021, Msindisi Phike was buried by the state as a pauper while his family was still waiting for his DNA results to be completed

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Brief | 29 January 2026

Call to scrap “apartheid-era” passport control with Lesotho

A human rights organisation has petitioned South Africa’s Parliament to scrap passports at Lesotho borders

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Brief | 29 January 2026