Picket against “water apartheid”

There’s enough water - the problem is allocation, says protester

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Brief | 8 December 2023

Metrorail shack dwellers moved, but to a place without toilets or water

First families moved off Central Line railway tracks

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News | 8 December 2023

One child dead and several people injured in Bloemfontein storm

Hundreds of people in Phase 6 location lost most of their belongings and now have to rebuild their homes

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Brief | 8 December 2023

Male murder rate is a national health priority, say researchers

Medical Research Council study has looked at why 87% of people murdered in South Africa are men

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News | 8 December 2023

Workers under Creecy’s “cleaning and greening” project demand unpaid wages

Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillor pens letter in support of workers’ demands

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Brief | 7 December 2023

Australian company to start seismic survey off West Coast in January

Environmental report acknowledges that seismic blasts, which are much louder than gunshots, can kill fish particularly those with swim bladders

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News | 7 December 2023

The EU protects its companies from Big Pharma. South Africa needs to do the same

Critical work being done by local scientists is at risk

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Opinion | 7 December 2023

The informal brick makers of Dordrecht

“We are only working to put food on the table, nothing else” says Tinashe Mandobe who has made bricks in the small Eastern Cape town since 2004

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News | 7 December 2023

Township boxing gym punches far above its weight

Mzi Damesi started the Overstrand Whale Boxing Club nearly 20 years ago in Hermanus

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Photo Essay | 7 December 2023

South Africa needs to spend an extra R535-billion a year to meet climate goals

Climate investments need to jump from R131-million a year, Presidential Climate Commission says

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News | 6 December 2023

From local theatre to Netflix film: young Philippi actor hopes to inspire township youth

Bonani Ngamlane auditioned in his tiny shack for Netflix’s latest South African film The Queenstown Kings

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News | 6 December 2023

Criminals terrorise old gold mining area

Four years after notorious gang leader was shot by police, Roodepoort families still live in fear

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Feature | 6 December 2023

Large part of Johannesburg without electricity since Saturday

City Power predicts seven days to restore power after fire gutted Observatory substation

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Brief | 5 December 2023

“Xenophobic” Makhubela should not be part of Joburg fire inquiry, say activists

Picket outside Commission of Inquiry into Albert Street fire

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News | 5 December 2023

Transgender woman who says she was raped in police custody has waited four years for justice

High Court judge critical of the Minister of Police’s “lackadaisical approach” to dealing with the matter

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News | 5 December 2023

South African primary school team takes top place in coding tournament

The #Coding4Mandela championship was held virtually on Tuesday

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Brief | 5 December 2023