The bucket eradication programme, started in 2012, has been through three departments and five implementing agents ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure conducted an oversight visit at the Telkom Towers complex on ...

Ahead of a six-month scheduled stoppage in supply from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), which provides water to ...

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Premier Phophi Ramathuba promised that former employees of the Great North Transport bus company would start receiving their ...

Now, she’s getting evicted. On 19 August, she received notice to vacate her residence by 30 September. This was later ...

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While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which mines may not blast. For instance, a mine’s blasting operations may no ...

Villagers in uMsinga north of Pietermaritzburg battle daily for water. Many get up in the small hours of the morning to queue at one of the very few borehole pumps. Some have stopped planting crops ...

At least 50 people attended an interfaith vigil at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening to mark one year of war in ...