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 »

South Africa: Political Will Needed to Save Lives Amid USAID Funding Cuts, Say Activists

"We will not let our people die" says Zackie Achmat Read more »

South Africa: Former Lottery Official Fails in Court Bid to Unfreeze His Pension Fund

Judge says former NLC chief risk officer Marubini Ramatsekisa didn't explain how he could live at an expensive golf estate while claiming to be unemployed Read more »

South Africa: Removal of Illegal Connections Sparks Protests in Khayelitsha

Residents of Social Distance informal settlement demand electricity supply Read more »

Africa: Herd of Life-Sized Animal Puppets to Travel Through Central Africa to Norway

Large-scale public art project to raise awareness about climate change Read more »

South Africa: Sassa Explains Why It Paid Grants to 75,000 Dead People

Systems are being improved to solve the problem Read more »

South Africa: More Than 100 Law Firms Defrauded the Road Accident Fund

Special Investigating Unit tells Parliament duplicate payments to lawyers amounted to R340-million Read more »

South Africa: Armed Gangs Target Five Cape Town Schools, Demand 10% of Teachers' Salaries

Police have made no arrests Read more »

South Africa: Fears Grow That U.S. May Pull Funding for South African Medical Research

Large clinical trials several years in and with millions of rands already spent are at risk Read more »

South Africa: Metro Police Block Roads in Protest Over Working Conditions

City of Ekhurhuleni says the protest is unlawful Read more »

South Africa: Treasury and Sassa Granted Leave to Appeal Ruling On SRD Grant

"Due to the complexity and seriousness of this case...it deserves the attention of the Supreme Court of Appeal," says Judge Leonard Twala Read more »

South Africa: Prasa Can't Say When Durban's Northern Coast Line Will Open Again

Agreement not yet reached between Transnet and PRASA Read more »

South Africa: Open Book Youth Fest Kicks Off in Langa

Showcasing a range of mostly children's books, the festival is set to run until next week Read more »

South Africa: Developer Sues Sedgefield Environmentalist for R5-Million

Tessa Joubert, blamed for delaying the development, says the lawsuit is designed to silence her and others Read more »

South Africa: Eskom Suspends Services in Part of Khayelitsha After Hijacking

Employees were robbed at gunpoint in Makhaza Read more »