South Africa

Picket at Mining Indaba demands justice for Stilfontein miners

Activists called for reparations to be paid to the families of the miners who died

Leaked ANC document calls for basic income grant in 2025

But official statement after lekgotla makes no mention of it

Storms damage hundreds of homes and schools in northern KZN

Homes damaged across Msinga and Abaqulusi municipalities

No end to long queues at SASSA Khayelitsha

Grant recipients and applicants must sleep over or arrive in the early hours if they hope to get served

Anger over failure of community-owned macadamia nut farm

Government-funded Ncera farm has battled drought and price fluctuations

Photo exhibition: Remembering the fishers of Kalk Bay

“The Sea is in our Blood” photo exhibition outside the Olympia Cafe

Former Lottery executive loses court bid to access his pension

Judge upholds ruling in favour of Special Investigating Unit

No money to fix broken clinic, says health department

Patients say no maintenance has been done on Colchester’s health facility since 2020

KZN flood victims housed in leaking building

Landlord battles with inconsistent payments from eThekwini Municipality

Three lessons in activism from Mark Weinberg

Weinberg, a key figure in the Right2Know Campaign, died on 28 January 2025

Explainer: BELA and its controversies

We unpick the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act that rocked the Government of National Unity

Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque

Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”

Afriforum lobbied Trump about land expropriation. Now he wants to cut South Africa’s health funding

“All I want is a job” pleads unemployed doctor

Unemployed health graduates march in Pretoria, demanding urgent action from Treasury

West Coast beaches polluted by oil spill

Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy

New Cape Town crèche is being built from tyres

Goal50 in Heideveld will be made from 5,000 tyres and other recycled waste