Since it started operating in 2004, the LHWP has been the most consistent source of Johannesburg’s water, and when the LHWP’s ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

Africa Energy Week (AEW) will be hosted in Cape Town from the 4 to 8 November, and boasts that it is “Africa’s biggest ...

The bucket eradication programme, started in 2012, has been through three departments and five implementing agents ...

Two first-year students at Stellenbosch University describe how they discovered bugs and fraud in SASSA’s SRD grant application system.

Now, she’s getting evicted. On 19 August, she received notice to vacate her residence by 30 September. This was later ...

Samuel Mafulako fears for the life of his family. The father of four worries that one day the walls of his home will collapse ...

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While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which mines may not blast. For instance, a mine’s blasting operations may no ...

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Two people in the care of a private care centre in Roerfontein, outside Tzaneen were found chained by their hands and feet during a visit by the Limpopo MEC for Social Development Florence Radzilani ...

Blind SA says President Cyril Ramaphosa has shirked his constitutional obligations by not signing the Copyright Amendment Bill The new law would give access to blind ...