On 29 July, the City of Cape Town sent its final version of a service level plan for commuter rail to PRASA. With legal ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the Western Cape government’s decision to cut 2,407 teacher posts beginning January 2025, the provincial Parliament met on Thursday to debate the matter. “This government can make better ...

Known as the “bokkom capital” of the world, Velddrif is a small fishing town on the West Coast where a type of fish biltong called “bokkoms” (a salted and dried harder fish) is sold from Bokkomlaan, ...

The building material and personal possessions belonging to 38 people the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) attempted to evict from land on the Cape Town foreshore is to be returned to the ...

The Johannesburg Labour Court has dismissed Premier Group’s urgent application to stop workers from striking at its Mister Sweet branch in Germiston. Workers downed tools on 19 August, demanding ...

A new waste water treatment works in Tsomo, Eastern Cape, was left incomplete two years ago and has been vandalised. Across the town, sewage is spilling from broken infrastructure and flowing into the ...