More than 17 million people applied for the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in September 2024, according ...

Years of neglect have left many of our municipalities grappling with severe financial mismanagement, infrastructure ...

PRASA says three of its four long-distance routes have been suspended. There is no indication when the services will resume.

The only public swimming pool in Ngcobo near Mthatha, Eastern Cape, has been left empty for four years. The pool was closed ...

Wheelchair users do not have access to many stations in Cape Town. Some have stairs without ramps or lifts; others have lifts ...

For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing ...

Two housing occupations, both led by Reclaim the City, hosted open days last weekend to “showcase the affordable housing ...

The nice part about what we do is the day that we actually release a bird,” says Jacques Nel, the founder of the Owl ...

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For two years, small-scale farmers in Citrusdal have battled heavy rains that completely devastated their vegetable crops.

Residents of Saldanha Bay and nearby Vredenburg say red dust pollution from the Transnet Port Terminal, through which iron ore is exported, is staining their homes, cars, trees, roads and even pets.

Hundreds of protesters from Fleurhof, west of Johannesburg, took to the streets early on Tuesday morning, demanding the government build schools, a clinic and a police station in their area. They ...