The protest was led by Durban and Coastal Mental Health. The picketers want an end to the stigma around mental health conditions. They also wants the government to increase funding and resources to ...

Blind SA says President Cyril Ramaphosa has shirked his constitutional obligations by not signing the Copyright Amendment ...

There have been at least ten serious incidents of cable theft in and around Villiersdorp since the beginning of August. The criminal incidents come after numerous blackouts were caused by winter ...

Fed-up with delays in construction, a Free State school has halted the building of a municipal reservoir on school premises.

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In Matikwe, in Inanda north of Durban, some 100 households were left out when water taps were installed in yards years ago.

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 ...

Villagers in uMsinga north of Pietermaritzburg battle daily for water. Many get up in the small hours of the morning to queue at one of the very few borehole pumps. Some have stopped planting crops ...

Hundreds of environmental activists from various organisations took to the streets of Sandton calling for a boycott of the ...

There is sufficient water for Johannesburg’s needs despite fears around the maintenance shutdown of the supply from Lesotho.

Alan Winde, Premier of the Western Cape, at the State of the Nation Address in 2023 at the Cape Town City Hall. Archive photo ...

At least 50 people attended an interfaith vigil at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening to mark one year of war in Gaza and to call for a boycott of Israel. People gathered outside Sarah ...