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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Public Protector has found there was “undue delay” in the Department of Correctional Services’ handling of Thabo Bester’s ...

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