Since the Human Rights Commission was given severe acute malnutrition statistics for Eastern Cape children from April 2021 to ...

Taps have been dry for more than eight years in eThekwini municipality’s ward 105. The residents of numerous villages ...

Work on the Tshivhuyuni Sports Facility in Limpopo started in August 2023, but the stadium remains incomplete. Now the ...

Tshakana villager Bongani Mgqebisa, who lost his right arm in an accident, is building his own house. He and his wife are among many who had hoped to benefit from a huge housing project in Cofimvaba.

Awkward. That’s the fashionable term when faced, as this commentator is, with writing a column on the outcome of a complaint to the Press Ombud lodged by the very publication that is to publish the ...

One person has died and two others have been hospitalised with critical injuries after a fire destroyed large parts of Cemetery View informal settlement in Pretoria in the early hours of Saturday ...

For years, conservationists have struggled to find effective ways to combat the illegal trade in ivory. While it may sound like a tool only used by archaeologists to study ancient artefacts, carbon ...

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In an exciting discovery, scientists have identified a new species of frog, the Cederberg Dainty Frog (Cacosternum cederbergense), which is endemic to the Cederberg region of South Africa. The first ...

A young man living in the water-scarce village of Tshifudi Tshikombele in Limpopo took the initiative to dig a 15-metre well to secure underground water for his community. Thonifhani Dzebu, 25, grew ...

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Thousands of RDP houses and an informal settlement with over 300 shacks in Kariega have been without tap water for a month now. Grandmother Siphokazi Hoyi was fetching water from a truck in ...