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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 ...

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 ...

It was in 2003, while photographing the devastating impacts of tik (crystal meth or methamphetamine) in Cape Town’s poor communities, that I first met Turner Adams. With an entire life etched into his ...

Some Social Relief of Distress grant beneficiaries approved in October are still waiting for their payment. The delay SASSA says is because of additional fraud checks. Many people who receive the ...

me&you mobile offers eSIMs online free of charge as part of a business model that encourages purchase of their packages. We tested their system and discovered that you can quickly and easily activate ...

We started our third and final walk from the parking lot of the Aquatics Centre in Extension 9, Eldorado Park, which has not re-opened after being shut during the COVID pandemic. Beyond the lot’s low ...

Postbank has assured SASSA beneficiaries that their Gold Cards will remain valid until they are replaced with the new Black Cards. The Gold Cards were set to expire on 31 December. Postbank ...

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 ...

West Coast fishers and environmental activists have gone to court to try to stop French multinational, TotalEnergies, from exploring for oil and gas off the coast. The Aukotowa small-scale fisheries ...

A pensioner may have lost R1-million of his savings on financial company Banxso’s platform. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) suspended Banxso’s licence on 16 October and froze its bank ...

A post mortem examination of the body of Cape Town taxi driver Luvuyo Vimba, who died after a clash with police, has revealed that the cause of his death was “due to multiple blunt force trauma”, ...