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Over 100,000 South Africans have probably died of Covid-19, says research council

Sick people queue outside SASSA offices as disability grants lapse

News

Daily Covid-19 update: 8 789 new cases reported, taking total to 930 711

This is where South Africa stands on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Lottery whistleblower ‘pressured’ to pay IT company to build athletics track

New advertising authority clamps down on quackery

Courts

Supreme Court of Appeal blasts KZN judge for tardiness

Crime

Illegally occupied RDP houses go on sale

Rastas march against new cannabis bill

Concerns raised over proposed changes to legislation governing electoral system

Dunoon mother and six children among families left homeless after blaze

The hard life of Fairview’s horse grooms

Durban’s immigrant shop owners fear for their lives after attacks

News

CCMA rules in favour of employee dismissed after smoking weed before work

News

Woman who opposed mine extension in KZN shot dead in her home

Nearly two million learners still not receiving meals at school

Courts

Singabalapha informal settlement wins interdict against City of Cape Town

Cash Paymaster Services to go into liquidation

People empty poo buckets in road as toilet dispute festers

Poor-quality food being given to learners, say activists

Twenty arrested in Thokoza after xenophobic violence

Courts

GroundUp wins lottery court battle against UCSA

News

Joburg waste reclaimers get boost with ‘trikes’, uniforms

News

Children eat wild plants to survive as hunger explodes

How firms flog unnecessary virus ‘deep cleans’ with exaggerated claims

News

WATCH: Naked man gets dragged out of his shack by CT officers

Health

Cape Town family recounts life in quarantine after contracting Covid-19

News

‘This is not a land grab. We are taking back what belongs to us’

Life outside may be returning to normal, but in hospitals things are very different

News

Family of five die in shack fire

Hairdressers find ways around lockdown ban

Motshekga taken to court as pupils struggle

News

Forced removal of residents ‘not an eviction, but a relocation’, says military

Courts

Zoom can now be used to negotiate retrenchments

News

Informal traders quietly defy lockdown ban on door-to-door selling

Schoolkids now sell illegal cigarettes to help parents make ends meet

Crime

Woman alleges Grassy Park police involved in cigarette corruption

R140 for a packet of cigarettes in Soweto that aren’t ‘fake’

Strandfontein site for homeless to be closed, says councillor

Crime

Justice Edwin Cameron calls for release of prisoners due to Covid-19 fears

Africa

Zimbabweans ask to be repatriated, as lockdown makes surviving in SA even harder

Parent company moves to put Cash Paymaster Services into business rescue

Economists propose Ramaphosa should spend 10 times more to save Covid-hit SA

Life under lockdown: A view from the townships

Safety amped up at Ceres fruit packhouse as employee tests positive

Health

Four people test positive in Dunoon informal settlement, says councillor

Crime

How the lockdown is creating even more opportunities for corrupt cops

Motshekga urged to restore school feeding schemes during lockdown

Tim Noakes catches flak for ‘dangerously misleading’ Covid-19 interview

Crime

Cape Town officers shoot at Khayelitsha protesters over shack demolitions

Crime

Woman allegedly shot during shack demolition – lockdown or not

News

Dodgy off-the-shelf companies cash in on Lottery millions

Come on SA, let’s make masks. They help a lot, and here’s how to do it

City of Cape Town and national government bicker over housing of refugees

From unsafe swabs to Gaddafi and Obama, beware these fake claims about Covid-19

How companies price-gouging the public will be made to pay … up to R1m

‘I’ve lost six months of my income,’ says musician during Covid-19

How TB machines will ramp up Covid-19 testing, but at ‘double the price’ of TB

News

Refugees adjust to life in a crowded tent amid concerns about Covid-19

Clinic staff serve patients through a fence in Uitenhage due to Covid-19

News

Lottery was warned in 2014 about fraud – and yet it continued

ANCYL shuts down supermarket, saying it lacked protective gear for workers

Sex workers defy lockdown and police beatings because they need the money

Police end five-month-long refugee occupation of Cape Town church

News

New regulations make it easier to trace contacts of infected people

Crime

Police kill three people in three days of lockdown. But this is normal for SA

Covid-19: What happens after the lockdown?

Police arrest shopkeeper for trading without a permit

Covid-19: Emergency workers refuse to attend to patient until they get proper equipment

World

The data: How many people could die of Covid-19 in SA?

Sex workers move online as SA goes into lockdown

News

Why is Prasa still trying to buy trains that are too tall?

News

Prominent church in Cape Town accused of scamming members

News

It’s hard to wash your hands when 380 families share three taps

It’s hard to wash your hands when 380 families share three taps