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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...