Waste pickers collect, sort and transport most of our recyclable waste, and regulations say they be must paid for their ...

Van Rooy says it is a tranquil town to live in and that Wupperthallers don’t “know” crime. You could sleep outside on your ...

Two of the bridges across the Swartkops River linking KwaNobuhle to Kariega in the Eastern Cape have collapsed in this week’s ...

An estimated 1,800 state-owned firearms are being lost or stolen every year, entering the illicit market and finding their ...

Residents of Ga-Rankuwa marched to the City of Tshwane council on Friday demanding roads in their area be tarred. Photos: ...

A person collapsed from a seizure while waiting to get a form to apply for his disability grant in a long queue outside SASSA’s Bellville office in Cape Town. The branch has been plagued by long ...

Heuningvlei was devastated by flooding for two consecutive years but the residents are determined to keep their town alive ...

Professor Harry Hausler, CEO of TB HIV Care and a former technical advisor to the National Department of Health on TB/HIV, ...

The council and its disciplinary committee not only failed to act in the public interest but also contributed to injustice, ...

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Gauteng depends on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) for the bulk of its water, but researchers say there is a problem: wetlands crucial to the regulation of the water that enters Lesotho’s ...

The Chris Hani District Municipality has spent more than R66-million on four water projects and yet taps remain dry in villages in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape. Projects are signed off as having been “handed ...