South Africa

Lockdown in pictures - Day 136: Women’s Day

Make Women’s Day matter by funding a shelter, urges Philisa Abafazi Bethu

Cape Town organisation hopes to open a second safe house

Lockdown in pictures - Day 135: Children at play

Lockdown in pictures - Day 134: Covid ambassadors

Generous households punished with high water bills

Residents of Eastern Cape town who shared their water face bills of up to R13,000

Municipality has gravely misunderstood its duties, court told

But Drakenstein municipality says criticism of its emergency housing plan is unwarranted 

Lotteries Act regulations to face legal challenge

Court will be asked to declare a section of the act unconstitutional

Cows graze among the dirty nappies on Uitenhage dumpsite

Residents say the only waste disposal site in ward 50 is bursting at the seams

Fined for going to a clinic during lockdown

Gugulethu man says he wants to sue metro officer