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A post mortem examination of the body of Cape Town taxi driver Luvuyo Vimba, who died after a clash with police, has revealed ...

Patients and staff at Khayelitsha Community Health Centre in Cape Town are at risk from electricity cables running to shacks nearby. Shack dwellers staying in nearby Lindelani Park have been ...

The newly elected Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe ordered the closure of eight immigrant-owned shops on Monday afternoon, in an operation conducted jointly by health and Home Affairs ...

More than anything else, Paul Dawid Vogelsang wants his language to be heard on radio, taught and to be spoken. Vogelsang, who is 64, speaks Nama, an indigenous Khoekhoe language that has faced ...

My elderly relative is living in a frail care facility. The staff took her SASSA card to buy "extra things" not provided by the home, like snacks, etc. But they never provide receipts, even after I ...

About 200 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers at Pikitup downed tools on Tuesday to protest outside Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero’s office. The workers want the City of Johannesburg to ...

Raw sewage is flowing in the streets of Sithembile township in Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal, where residents have been struggling with water shortages for six months. Most areas in the township have had no ...

The Klip River has many sources. One is a stream that begins under the roads and buildings of Newtown at the southern end of the city centre, emerging above ground next to Albertina Sisulu road where ...

Fisher women from Doringbaai are taking the initiative on social and environmental issues affecting their small West Coast village. They have started an organisation called Spirit of Endeavour ...

Ian Blose, who was once an accused in a corruption trial and was suspended from practicing in relation to a trust fund deficit, was appointed as a magistrate in 2020. His past came into the spotlight ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria on Saturday demanding that the South African government cut all diplomatic and economic ties with Israel. The protest was ...