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Hundreds of people from Shaka’s Head informal settlement marched on Monday to the Ilembe Municipality offices in Ballito, ...

Kumkani Mhlontlo municipality refuses to give adequate explanations as residents and councillors raise questions ...

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Security guards wait outside the Labour Court last Friday. Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana. Security guards working for Golden ...

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 ...

The Special Investigating Unit described to Parliament last week how it is cracking down on dodgy medical legal claims. Payouts of medical related claims were R265-million in 2013. This skyrocketed to ...

Despite being less than 5km from a major dam, villagers near Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape have no water in their taps. As a result, hundreds of households have to get their water from streams which ...

A court challenge by the former chairman of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) Alfred Nevhutanda has delayed the forfeiture of millions of rands in assets by the state. Nevhutanda is challenging ...

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Known as the “bokkom capital” of the world, Velddrif is a small fishing town on the West Coast where a type of fish biltong called “bokkoms” (a salted and dried harder fish) is sold from Bokkomlaan, ...