The National Lotteries Commission will use its reserves to continue funding good causes if lottery ticket sales are suspended ...

South Africans voted in national elections, miners were trapped underground and homeless people were moved from the streets ...

People in the small town of Kakamas on the banks of the Orange River, 80km west of Upington in the Northern Cape, live with ...

Frustrated villagers in Valdezia near Elim are demanding urgent action from the Limpopo Department of Health over the ...

After a two-year delay, the criminal case involving the theft of 42km of railway line by a former top PRASA official will ...

In his opening remarks during a recent public webinar Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Mahlobo placed the blame ...

We have previously reported that the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system is being defrauded. Here we explain how weak computer systems at the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), ...

Preliminary research shows people are using fentanyl, a lab-made opioid over 30 times as potent as heroin, responsible for thousands of deaths in the US ...

He left his family and began a life of homelessness on the streets of central Durban. He was in his early twenties. A steady ...

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How a network of non-profit organisations, co-operatives and companies captured the department’s “sustainable livelihoods” ...

Last week, this GroundUp reporter rode the Metrorail Southern Line between Fish Hoek and Rondebosch for one week to assess ...