Former South African boxer Stephen Msimanga has high hopes for the 25 youngsters he trains daily in his backyard in Orlando ...

Since it started operating in 2004, the LHWP has been the most consistent source of Johannesburg’s water, and when the LHWP’s ...

Samuel Mafulako fears for the life of his family. The father of four worries that one day the walls of his home will collapse ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

The bucket eradication programme, started in 2012, has been through three departments and five implementing agents ...

Africa Energy Week (AEW) will be hosted in Cape Town from the 4 to 8 November, and boasts that it is “Africa’s biggest ...

The Johannesburg High Court has delivered a significant judgment. It has declared unconstitutional the defence of “subjective consent” to a charge of rape. Judge Selby Baqwa said such a defence ...

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While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which mines may not blast. For instance, a mine’s blasting operations may no ...

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Parents of learners at Copesville Secondary School in Pietermaritzburg have shut the school down since Monday in protest because the school’s water and electricity have been cut by the municipality.

We are two first-year computer science students at Stellenbosch University. We have been looking for vulnerabilities in government as well as private-sector systems. We do this completely legally, by ...