Gauteng panic app exposed crime reports and your locations
Reports about domestic violence and assault, including images, could be accessed by a tech-savvy computer user
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SASSA: Pensioners complain to minister about deductions from their grants
Social Development minister and SASSA CEO visit Delft office
Micah Reddy has been released and is on his way home
Kooki Mahmoud has also been freed by Djiboutian authorities
Local companies to be asked to make foot-and-mouth disease vaccines
Agricultural Research Council cannot meet demand, Minister of Agriculture tells Parliament
Gugulethu backyarders fed up waiting for promised houses
Despite funding being secured and a contractor appointed, the housing project has stalled
Police and NPA liable for murder by man out on bail
The Gqeberha High Court has found the Minister of Police and National Director of Public Prosecutions negligent
Police torture case postponed for 11th time
Trial set for May 2027, three and a half years after Mowbray barber was assaulted by SAPS
Enable Through Dance: breaking barriers for dancers with disabilities
“It’s about giving young people living with disabilities a chance to explore potential that they have not before”
SASSA: Long queues, broken toilets and no service after lunchtime
People have to make repeat visits to get help at the Umlazi SASSA office
Elections 2026: This town only gets water for an hour a day
Kou-Kamma Local Municipality says it needs R210-million to upgrade and maintain water and sanitation infrastructure
South African journalist Micah Reddy missing in Djibouti
Local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, also missing since Saturday noon
Exceptional El Niño puts southern Africa on drought alert
Pacific Ocean temperatures far above normal raise the risk of low summer rainfall, heatwaves and pressure on food production.
Traders, taxi drivers welcome long-awaited Nyanga rank upgrade
During the major upgrade, the Nyanga Sports Field will temporarily accommodate Golden Arrow buses, taxis, traders and toilets
Three years of silence on state land, communities pay the cost
Government asked communities applying for land to follow the rules. Then it went silent.
Raw sewage is flowing in nearly every metro
Sewage treatment scores have dropped in seven out of eight metro municipalities
Beware of populist leaders, warns judge
Justice Azhar Cachalia makes a clarion call for the rule of law underpinned by universal human rights and an independent judiciary
Textbook saga may delay plans to improve child literacy
New catalogue for grades 1-3 is expected to be based on latest research
Procurement Act struck down by Concourt
Parliament failed to allow proper public participation on a new law that the City of Cape Town said creates red tape
Why COSATU’s congress collapsed
For the first time in its 40 year history, SA’s biggest union gathering did not reach quorum
Makhanda’s decade-long struggle for reliable water
Upgrades to the water treatment plant to solve the crisis that started in 2015 are yet to be completed
Stop sardine fishing, warn conservationists
Mass die-offs of sardines have prompted the government to limit sardine catch until 2 October, but conservationists say this is not enough
Picketers outside City Hall demand safety for women and children
Women and civil society groups call for government to act against femicide
Elections 2026: N1 town’s decade of decay
Beaufort West municipality says it does not have enough money to fix its ageing infrastructure. But the problem is self-inflicted
Dunoon residents’ housing hopes dashed
City plans mixed-income development not state housing for 72-hectare site