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Nabeelah Abrahams leading the Nerina Primary School marching band in Bonteheuwel as they prepare to compete in next week’s ...

The “too-tall” AFRO-4000 locomotive, supplied to PRASA by Spanish rail company Vossloh España, via Swifambo, a front company.

Meanwhile, the presentation by the Auditor-General’s office also revealed that only 20% of the department’s planned targets ...

Thousands of RDP houses and an informal settlement with over 300 shacks in Kariega have been without tap water for a month ...

Mahlangu informal settlement in Tshwane face eviction from privately-owned land. Some have lived there for 40 years. The City ...

Dozens injured ...

A shopfloor worker at Woolworths would have had to work for almost three years to make as much money as that group’s CEO Roy ...

Immigration rights activists have welcomed an interim interdict granted by the Western Cape High Court that prohibits Home ...

This winter’s heavy rain and strong wind seems to have exposed weaknesses in Cape Town’s electricity grid south of ...

The Browns Farm Public Library in Philippi remains closed more than a year after it was vandalised and looted during destructive protests sparked by the city-wide taxi strike. At the height of the ...

As the story is not over yet, it’s worth looking at what has happened so far and understanding the questions which still have to be answered: On 28 June 2023, the High Court found that the decision by ...