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

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 ...

Former South African boxer Stephen Msimanga has high hopes for the 25 youngsters he trains daily in his backyard in Orlando ...

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

Crime involving firearms and extortion has prevented the municipality, Eskom and SASSA from providing essential services ...

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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The Johannesburg High Court has delivered a significant judgment. It has declared unconstitutional the defence of “subjective consent” to a charge of rape. Judge Selby Baqwa said such a defence ...

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 ...

The Passenger Rail Agency of South (PRASA) has finally complied with an order by the High Court, compelling it to return building materials belonging to people sleeping on Transnet-owned land on Cape ...

Eskom’s Kusile power plant has been plagued with issues since its construction commenced in 2008. The initial plan was for ...