Many people who receive the grant need it urgently for basic needs. Nearly three weeks after they were supposed to be paid, a ...

Meletsi is one of dozens of family members who have been camping near the mine shaft in Stilfontein for the past week in anticipation, hoping for someone to rescue their loved ones. Community members ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In November 2023, Metro health services in Cape Town requested the suspension of a mobile clinic after residents complained it was giving out needles to drug users. The program was halted for four ...

Endangered succulents in the Richtersveld have been given a lifeline from poaching, mining, overgrazing, and climate change. The Richtersveld Desert Botanical Garden in Sendelingsdrif opened in August ...

People in Mamelodi trying to claim their Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) money or to report work-related problems to the Department of Employment and Labour have been left frustrated. This after the ...