A food bank in Gauteng has 5,600 food parcels for poor families in its warehouse, but it has not received the funds it needs ...

It has taken more than a year to rezone land for the relocation of these households living in the rail reserve of the Central ...

Hundreds of workers marched in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban on Monday to mark World Day for Decent Work. In Cape Town ...

Fed-up with delays in construction, a Free State school has halted the building of a municipal reservoir on school premises.

While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which ...

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

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Across the country, potholes are an all too familiar and frustrating feature of South Africa’s roads. Archive photo: Barbara ...

The UIF online portal has been down for six weeks, including uFiling, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and Virtual ...

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