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Johannesburg lost 207 billion litres of water last year, enough to fill the Hillbrow Tower more than 5,000 times. Ratepayers ...

In April, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers ...

Juma Igiranieza was assaulted by police during a raid at his workplace. He was beaten and suffocated with a plastic bag. What ...

March and March’s leaders say their movement is not xenophobic. They say it is a peaceful organisation. But the facts say ...

The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development has asked the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to investigate failed farm ...

Eugene Cloete spends every afternoon collecting stones and filling potholes on Khayelitsha’s Swartklip Road to help motorists ...

Questions raised about jobs, community benefits, ownership and environmental impact of proposed 37-turbine facility ...

The energy sector alone emitted 375Mt in 2024, which is more than the whole lower target for 2030 (350Mt). In order to reach the top of the 2030 range, emissions must fall by another 24Mt. To reach ...

One cannot complete one’s identity without language,” says award-winning author and poet Gaireyah Fredericks. She was speaking about the rich history of Kaaps at the Iziko Bo-Kaap museum’s Heritage ...

About 200 activists, including people who live along the N2 in Cape Town, gathered along the Sea Point promenade on Heritage Day to oppose the municipality’s planned “N2 Edge” wall safety project.

More than 7,000 households lack basic sanitation, a failure for which the SAHRC blamed both the municipality and the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, which is responsible for bulk water ...