Elections 2026: This failing town is knee-deep in sewage (opens on the publisher’s site)
Tswaing municipality in the North West spends money on court battles and consultants
Ground Up
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Intercape secures court interdict after Ngcobo taxi strike (opens on the publisher’s site)
Buses will load passengers outside the police station
Cape Town roads blocked in electricity protest (opens on the publisher’s site)
Philippi informal settlement residents want the City of Cape Town to negotiate with the private landowners to install services
My two-hour “detention” while reporting on water challenges in Bronkhorstspruit (opens on the publisher’s site)
Nothing will deter me from doing my work and defending press freedom
State land must be used for housing, activists say (opens on the publisher’s site)
Applications were submitted three years ago, but vast areas of government-owned land remain unused
iSimangaliso World Heritage Site is in danger, scientists warn (opens on the publisher’s site)
Estuary could become freshwater wetland within 10 years
Peach farmers offered cash to end Tulbagh cannery contracts (opens on the publisher’s site)
Premier is offering producers R3,250 per tonne to end their contractual obligation to supply Tulbagh cannery
Test more people to reduce new TB deaths, study finds (opens on the publisher’s site)
New tests can be done in clinics and are much easier for patients
Gauteng panic app exposed crime reports and your locations (opens on the publisher’s site)
Reports about domestic violence and assault, including images, could be accessed by a tech-savvy computer user
Micah Reddy has been released and is on his way home (opens on the publisher’s site)
Kooki Mahmoud has also been freed by Djiboutian authorities
Local companies to be asked to make foot-and-mouth disease vaccines (opens on the publisher’s site)
Agricultural Research Council cannot meet demand, Minister of Agriculture tells Parliament
SASSA: Pensioners complain to minister about deductions from their grants (opens on the publisher’s site)
Social Development minister and SASSA CEO visit Delft office
Gugulethu backyarders fed up waiting for promised houses (opens on the publisher’s site)
Despite funding being secured and a contractor appointed, the housing project has stalled
Enable Through Dance: breaking barriers for dancers with disabilities (opens on the publisher’s site)
“It’s about giving young people living with disabilities a chance to explore potential that they have not before”
Police torture case postponed for 11th time (opens on the publisher’s site)
Trial set for May 2027, three and a half years after Mowbray barber was assaulted by SAPS
Police and NPA liable for murder by man out on bail (opens on the publisher’s site)
The Gqeberha High Court has found the Minister of Police and National Director of Public Prosecutions negligent
SASSA: Long queues, broken toilets and no service after lunchtime (opens on the publisher’s site)
People have to make repeat visits to get help at the Umlazi SASSA office
Traders, taxi drivers welcome long-awaited Nyanga rank upgrade (opens on the publisher’s site)
During the major upgrade, the Nyanga Sports Field will temporarily accommodate Golden Arrow buses, taxis, traders and toilets
Three years of silence on state land. Communities pay the cost (opens on the publisher’s site)
Government asked communities applying for land to follow the rules. Then it went silent.
Raw sewage is flowing in nearly every metro (opens on the publisher’s site)
Sewage treatment scores have dropped in seven out of eight metro municipalities
Textbook saga may delay plans to improve child literacy (opens on the publisher’s site)
New catalogue for grades 1-3 is expected to be based on latest research
Procurement Act struck down by Concourt (opens on the publisher’s site)
Parliament failed to allow proper public participation on a new law that the City of Cape Town said creates red tape
Beware of populist leaders, warns judge (opens on the publisher’s site)
Justice Azhar Cachalia makes a clarion call for the rule of law underpinned by universal human rights and an independent judiciary
Why COSATU’s congress collapsed (opens on the publisher’s site)
For the first time in its 40 year history, SA’s biggest union gathering did not reach quorum