The death toll in a fire after the police and army swooped on informal miners in Daggafontein last month has risen to at ...

Drivers participated in a strike on Tuesday and plan further action in the next three months. Photo: Marecia Damons. Drivers ...

Department of Co-operative Governance reverses decision to end contracts of about 35,000 employees who also get old age ...

As the story is not over yet, it’s worth looking at what has happened so far and understanding the questions which still have to be answered: On 28 June 2023, the High Court found that the decision by ...

I am a backyarder on a government property. The person who lived in the main house has had to move to an old age home, so now it stands empty. We have a prepaid electricity meter that can only be ...

In 2020 Jonathan Ancer and I were commissioned to co-author a biography of Pravin Gordhan. We were both intrigued by the man – probably known best at the time for his resistance to former president ...

The Special Investigating Unit described to Parliament last week how it is cracking down on dodgy medical legal claims. Payouts of medical related claims were R265-million in 2013. This skyrocketed to ...

This winter’s heavy rain and strong wind seems to have exposed weaknesses in Cape Town’s electricity grid south of Scarborough and Simon’s Town. Residents say the power goes out whenever it rains, and ...

SASSA underspent R4-billion on SRD grants for the 2022/23 financial year due to a low uptake caused by its new means test, according to the Auditor-General. The audit also revealed that SASSA doesn’t ...

Hundreds of people who have been occupying the brightly coloured shipping containers earmarked for social housing in Alexandra, Johannesburg were evicted on Wednesday. In February families who had ...

Despite being less than 5km from a major dam, villagers near Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape have no water in their taps. As a result, hundreds of households have to get their water from streams which ...

A court challenge by the former chairman of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) Alfred Nevhutanda has delayed the forfeiture of millions of rands in assets by the state. Nevhutanda is challenging ...