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 ...

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

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

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

Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester showed police officers a fraudulent identity document after being apprehended for speeding in July 2022. The police officers knew the document was fraudulent ...

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The Constitutional Court will hear two applications relating to copyright in South Africa that affects the rights of blind people to convert copyright protected works into accessible formats. The ...

The Independent Media group was expelled from the Press Council with immediate effect on Wednesday. This followed the publisher’s refusal to obey Press Council rulings. The Press Council sanctioned ...

The Malinga family believe that their father’s life might have been saved had he received attention at the Makgolokoeng village clinic near Harrismith in the Free State. Buti Malinga, 57, died on 7 ...

Hundreds of families across Nelson Mandela Bay have sought shelter in churches and community halls after their homes were badly flooded on Monday night. Essential infrastructure is badly damaged.