Minister Parks Tau has revealed that the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) spent over R73-million on litigation and disciplinary inquiries involving past and current staff. Almost R13-million was ...

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

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

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The volume of heroin seized by the South African police has been increasing. First slowly since the late 1990s, and then ...

In Matikwe, in Inanda north of Durban, some 100 households were left out when water taps were installed in yards years ago.

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

Hundreds of environmental activists from various organisations took to the streets of Sandton calling for a boycott of the ...

There is sufficient water for Johannesburg’s needs despite fears around the maintenance shutdown of the supply from Lesotho.

Alan Winde, Premier of the Western Cape, at the State of the Nation Address in 2023 at the Cape Town City Hall. Archive photo ...

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 ...