Nigel families waiting 30 years for promised RDP homes

About 100 households still live in shacks in Alra Park while their neighbours on either side live in completed RDP houses

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Brief | 2 April 2026

Lottery fraud case against Jozi FM board chair referred to Commercial Crimes Unit

Witnesses allege Rapitse Montsho attempted to intimidate them in breach of his bail conditions

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Brief | 31 March 2026

Soweto volunteers clean streets as illegal dumping overwhelms Gauteng

The Soulbent Project has dozens of residents converting dumping sites into vegetable gardens

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News | 31 March 2026

In photos: Festival brings fun to Melville’s streets

The third edition of The Happening festival hopes to boost community morale and local businesses

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Photo Essay | 30 March 2026

Human Rights festival highlights plight of domestic workers

Domestic workers are often underpaid, overworked, given poor accommodation and no benefits

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Brief | 30 March 2026

Court warns government: stop vigilantes blocking clinic access

The Department of Health and other government respondents have failed to comply with a court order to stop anti-immigrant vigilantes screening patients

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Brief | 27 March 2026

Ekurhuleni’s “ghost workers” demand jobs and compensation

About 200 former EPWP workers say the municipal database shows them earning salaries 11 years after their contracts ended

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Brief | 26 March 2026

“We can go weeks without water, and no one seems to care”

Elderly residents of Lehae in Johannesburg battle to fetch water

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News | 25 March 2026

Hundreds of Soweto residents protest in Pretoria for a flat rate electricity tariff

They want the regulator to introduce a flat rate of R350 for poor households

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Brief | 23 March 2026