South Africa: Fed Up With Promises of Housing - Langa Residents March to Cape Town Civic Centre

Some of the protesters still live in apartheid era hostels Read more »

South Africa: Sassa Gold Cards Will Remain Valid Until All Cards Are Replaced

But grant beneficiaries still urged to switch to Black Card Read more »

South Africa: Former Woodstock Hospital Can Be Developed Without Displacing Its Occupiers

City of Cape Town should work with and not against the building's residents, say urban researchers Read more »

South Africa: Disabled Man's Bucket Urinal System Keeps Joburg Streets Clean

Thabo Khumalo makes R70 a day renting out his buckets to passers-by Read more »

South Africa: Deaths Spark Protest Over Unsafe Bridge Outside Pinetown

Umngeni River claims two lives Read more »

South Africa: SAPS Responds to GroundUp's Articles On Extortion in Cape Town

GroundUp recently reported that extortionists are targeting schools and informal businesses in Phillipi, Nyanga and Khayelitsha. SAPS Western Cape spokesperson Colonel Andre Traut… Read more »

South Africa: Durban Judge Gags Journalist

Reporter prevented from exposing claims that a solar panel company misled a client Read more »

South Africa: Hundreds March to Johannesburg Mayor's Office Demanding Houses

Many say they have been waiting 30 years for government housing Read more »

South Africa: Accused in Police Torture Case Considers Plea Deal

Three police officers are charged with torturing a barber in Cape Town in November 2023 Read more »

South Africa: Days of Protests in Indwe Over Hospital Downgrade

Health MEC assures residents there will be no downgrade if they are against it Read more »

South Africa: City of Cape Town Proposes Affordable Housing On Prime Green Point Site

The land value of the site ranks "among the highest in the southern hemisphere" Read more »

South Africa: Limpopo Education Department Set to Miss Pit Toilets Deadline

Some Rivubye High School learners prefer to use bushes Read more »

South Africa: Good News for Leopard Toads - Anonymous Donor Buys Crucial Habitat in Cape Town

The property in the heart of Noordhoek will also be an open space for the community Read more »

South Africa: Extortionists Close Down Informal Businesses in Cape Town

SAPS says fighting extortion is a priority, but won't provide details on its response Read more »

Lesotho: Health Minister Confident Lesotho Can Manage Without U.S. Funding, but Jobs Are Already Being Lost

And funding cuts are hitting access to HIV tests and medicines Read more »

South Africa: Refugees Evicted From UNHCR in 2023 Reduced to Eating Frogs

The families have been living in an old school building in Bronkhorstspruit for two years Read more »

South Africa: Lottery Licence Bidder Accuses Minister of Favouring Ithuba

HCI subsidiary Wina Njalo brought an urgent court application after Minister Parks Tau postponed deadline for new operator Read more »

South Africa: R25-Million and Six Years Later, Soweto Centre Still Needs Millions to Be Completed

SIU investigates unfinished arts centre backed by music legends Caiphus Semenya and Letta Mbulu Read more »

South Africa: Parliament Secretly Passed New Code of Conduct Without Public Comment

Activist group #UniteBehind wants the change declared unconstitutional Read more »

South Africa: Quick Explainer - What VAT Means for You

If Parliament passes the 2025/6 budget, the VAT rate will go from 15% to 15.5% on 1 May this year. This means that the price of all but a few goods and services will go up, and… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Deaths, Cover-Ups and Bribes At Zimbabwe's Lawless Redwing Mine

Thousands of artisanal gold miners toil in the dirt in a mine controlled by political elites Read more »

South Africa: Campaign Launched to Help Stateless People Become Citizens

Hundreds take part in human rights festival at Constitutional Hill Read more »

South Africa: Gauteng High Court Proposes Mandatory Mediation for Civil Cases

Judges Matter welcomes the move but says more judges are needed Read more »

South Africa: Sharpeville - 'These Politicians Just Come and Create a Spectacle'

Residents say Human Rights Day means little in their township Read more »

South Africa: Big Oil Find in Limpopo? or Just False Hope?

Troubling questions for Booi Brothers about their exploration in Vhurivhuri Read more »