Former South African boxer Stephen Msimanga has high hopes for the 25 youngsters he trains daily in his backyard in Orlando ...

Tshwane non-profit social housing company Yeast City Housing has been placed under business rescue. The company has debt of ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Leeuwenhof, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde’s official residence, in the early hours ...

Recently, the City adopted a Temporary Emergency Accommodation (TEA) policy as its tool for providing alternative housing for ...

Two drug rehabilitation centres run by Life Nkanyisa, a subsidiary of Life Healthcare, have recently closed their doors after ...

Over 100 people from ward 105 on the south coast of Durban picketed outside the city hall on Thursday, demanding tap water.

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

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

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Hundreds of residents from Shaka’s Head informal settlement marched on Monday to Kwadukuza municipal offices in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, demanding toilets, water and electricity. The marchers, who ...

More than 17 million people applied for the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in September 2024, according to the latest figures supplied by the South African Social Security Agency ...

“The nice part about what we do is the day that we actually release a bird,” says Jacques Nel, the founder of the Owl Orphanage Rehabilitation Centre. Situated in Velddrif alongside the Berg River, ...