None of the 19 sewage treatment plants managed by the Ugu District Municipality are properly treating sewage released into ...

Neither Lesufi nor the Department of Social Development have provided details on where the money will come from to reverse ...

The Gauteng Department of Social Development has declined an access to information request by GroundUp for details of grants paid to a beauty academy that received tens of millions of rands over two ...

Hundreds of community health workers toyi-toyed and sang struggle songs outside the offices of Western Cape Premier Alan Winde in Cape Town on Friday in a protest organised by the National Union of ...

The South African Squid Management Industrial Association (SASMIA), representing the commercial squid fishing sector, has taken fisheries minister Barbara Creecy to court. SASMIA is challenging the ...

It’s about 3pm in Cwebeni, a small village near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape, and children and their mothers are lining up for what might be their only meal of the day. Over a wood fire, four ...

Students and staff at the University of Cape Town (UCT) arrived on Thursday morning to find about ten tents with Palestinian flags and banners near the main plaza. The encampment is in solidarity with ...

The Post Office and Postbank have failed to manage the social grants payment system. But the private sector is not an easy fix either. The failures of the Post Office and then Postbank have led to ...

Hundreds of mine workers marched in the West Rand of Johannesburg on Saturday to protest looming retrenchments at gold mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater. The march was organised by the National Union of ...

Water levels at reservoirs in Durban remain critically low, and many households in Ntuzuma and surrounding areas have been without running water for weeks. Residents of Ntuzuma H welcomed the arrival ...

What should an effective social grant payment system look like? In the first two instalments of this series, we examined the weakening of the social grants payment system in South Africa and how ...

The Post Office and Postbank have failed to manage the social grants payment system. But the private sector is not an easy fix either. The failures of the Post Office and then Postbank have led to ...