Thousands of homeless people live in Cape Town. Many of them beg as their main source of income. The City of Cape Town and some homeless organisations discourage giving cash to beggars. Others ...

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure is to take legal action against Fikile Construction to recover damages incurred in the incomplete R163-million Mamelodi Magistrates’ Court ...

After a shack fire in 2022, Kolotla and about 40 others in the settlement started building brick-and-mortar houses. Kolotla’s house has three rooms. He designed it himself and laid the bricks by hand.

Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti and British MP Jeremy Corbyn have condemned US President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza, which would see a transitional international authority ...

About 50 people gathered outside Cape Town International Convention Centre on Tuesday afternoon to protest against fossil fuel. The centre is the venue for African Energy Week, an annual conference of ...

The smell of raw sewage filled the air as Henk Boshoff, Commissioner at the SA Human Rights Commission, walked through the streets of Bloekombos in Cape Town on Monday. His visit, accompanied by City ...

One of the accused officers was not in court as he was attending his dog’s “retirement party”. The magistrate decided this ...

Reclaimers save municipalities money that would have been spent on transporting waste to landfills. The Council for ...

Five years ago, the National Shelter Movement of South Africa (NSMSA) launched a domestic violence helpline. The organisation ...

Delays in building a R28-billion water project, now scheduled for completion 14 years after the original deadline, have left families in Tafelkop, west of Durban, without water. Residents claim that ...

Postbank “created its own urgency” by waiting until September to bring the application, the Gauteng High Court ruled. It has ...

A clinical trial has found that treating hypertension at home is significantly more effective than treating hypertension in ...