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News

Here’s how waste plastic could beat coal as an energy source and generate revenue

News

Mbalula promises land to people living on railway track

Health

TB vaccine could save thousands of lives but we’ll only see it in 2030

Watch: Where others see trash, Anna and Harriet see treasure

Young South Africans have to choose between eating and looking for work

News

Watch: Bara Hospital fails patients

Overcrowded schools accuse government of broken promises

R350 grant: 7 million people applied since Saturday but there’s limited capacity

You chose electricity and toilets instead of houses, families told

Courts

Nando’s gets burned in court for firing employee who tasted their carrots

News

R9.3-million and nothing to show for Limpopo tourism project

SASSA not processing new applications for the R350 Covid grant

Schools close at 11 am in Mandela Bay because there’s no water

Prison visits reinstated as National State of Disaster ends

News

Court stops municipality evicting single mother with special needs child

Benoni residents petition government to stop illegal mining near their homes

It would take 115 years to tar Limpopo’s roads, says Road Agency

Health

Doctors playing caterer as Bara Hospital fails to feed patients, waste piles up

Opinion

Lives and eyes lost: Excessive use of rubber bullets by police too common

WATCH: Should prisoners have access to cellphones?

Health

Man shot four times waits two weeks for surgery at Tshwane hospital

Courts

Part of Children’s Act declared unconstitutional by High Court

Traders are selling goods on the railway tracks in Mamelodi

Housing backlog: Silence on far-reaching changes during Sona

Nothing has changed in Alexandra, says Human Rights Commission

Investigation reveals former Lottery Commission board member’s millions linked to grants

Courts

Urgent interdict to halt West Coast seismic survey underway in Cape High Court

WATCH: Still no answers for parents as Tembisa school continues to crumble

Municipal officials accused of complicity in land grab

Wave of xenophobic attacks spark fear in Gauteng’s immigrant traders

Courts

Municipal employee a sex pest that must be fired, Labour Court appeal rules

News

Limpopo floods: Families waiting since December for help

News

CCMA reinforces vaccine stance in a second ruling against anti-vax employee

Parliament fire: Botched digitisation may mean millions of precious documents lost

Activists push for Covid relief grant to be extended, increased beyond state of disaster

WATCH: Apartheid victims get their land back – half-a-century later

R23 million Joburg library still closed after three years

Courts

Court dismisses farmer’s claim to privacy over baboon killing

Crime

Cape Town cop released on bail after shooting homeless man in face

Desmond Tutu was a moral voice for South Africa and the world

Municipality says Eastern Cape villagers will have to wait 21 years for water

Murky water, which often contains fungi in King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality

Secrecy surrounds R80 million in Lottery funding for sports project

Health

Charlotte Maxeke hospital crisis: Staff ask Ramaphosa to intervene

UCT urged to ‘de-coal-inise’ by divesting from fossil fuels

Pit latrines, bad roads and no tap water but Limpopo villagers have multi-million rand community halls

Lottery audit delayed after ‘concerns’ found by Auditor-General

Fikile Mbalula, the lottery boss and the luxury R5.6 million home

Courts

Govt, Legal Practice Council oppose court bid by Zim-born law graduates

Qunu on life support – nothing works in Madiba’s home town

Opinion

SA’s faulty approach to life sentences leads to explosion in ‘lifer’ numbers

Courts

Legal Practice Council slammed for not acting against serial delinquent attorney

PICS: How immigrants tough it out in Joburg’s hijacked buildings

New SANDF uniforms to be manufactured locally

Government’s ‘secretive’ family grant plans laid bare

Three terrible local election campaigns

Courts

Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog

Covid-19 testing is too expensive and too difficult in South Africa

Numsa workers will return to work by Monday

Refugee at Lindela Repatriation Centre dies while waiting to leave South Africa

Courts

40 days later, and magistrate court IT system still in disarray

50 shacks demolished in Durban without any warning, say land occupiers

Cape Town residents pay to house homeless – but for how long?

Limpopo school falling apart, while education dept makes ’empty promises’

Special Features

Emfuleni: Will voters punish ANC for SA’s worst-run municipality?

Editorial: There is no scientific basis for the 12am to 4am curfew

Courts

Racist Facebook comment: Fired employee loses court bid

Covid-19 has claimed nearly a quarter million lives in SA

Housing project stalled as Ekhurhuleni municipality dumps company linked to Magashule crony

Sassa given until today to respond to bribery allegations

Man dies in Gqeberha during Numsa’s countrywide march

Homeless people’s tents confiscated as City of Cape Town cracks down

Nick Hudson opposes SA’s vaccination plan – what he hasn’t said is that his company makes alternative medicines

Crime

Police officers arrested for death in custody of Regan Naidoo

Fishermen fear Karpowership plan could threaten their livelihoods