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A Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services report says hundreds of prisoners are held in solitary confinement and this ...

Staff at NLG Gloves were distraught on Wednesday when the company announced that it would be relocating to Carletonville in Gauteng due to unreliable power supply in Harrismith un ...

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Incomplete projects involving R70-million under Mhlontlo Local Municipality in Qumbu and Tsolo near Mthatha, Eastern Cape, stand unfinished, and the municipality refuses to adequately explain why. The ...

Thousands of RDP houses and an informal settlement with over 300 shacks in Kariega have been without tap water for a month now. Grandmother Siphokazi Hoyi was fetching water from a truck in ...

The Browns Farm Public Library in Philippi remains closed more than a year after it was vandalised and looted during destructive protests sparked by the city-wide taxi strike. At the height of the ...

A severe shortage of approved inspectors has led to a safety report backlog for 476 dams, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) heard in Parliament this month. A dam safety report is meant ...

Drivers from Uber, Bolt and inDrive stopped work in Cape Town on Tuesday and marched to the Western Cape provincial legislature. They were calling for government to intervene in the industry. They ...

In 2020 Jonathan Ancer and I were commissioned to co-author a biography of Pravin Gordhan. We were both intrigued by the man – probably known best at the time for his resistance to former president ...