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

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

Over 100 people from Ward 105 on the south coast of Durban picketed outside the city hall on Thursday, demanding tap water.

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

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

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

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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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 ...

A withering attack on the new National Lotteries Commission (NLC) in Parliament last week was led by three men: chair of the trade and industry portfolio committee Mzwandile Masina, former minister ...