Johannesburg sewerage treatment fails Green Drop assessment
Metro has dropped from 91% in 2011 to below 50%
By Seth Thorne
News | 7 April 2026
How criminal cops escape justice
Delmore Manuel, Jermaine Conradie, and Leigh-Ann Maroon are getting away with torture
GroundView | 7 April 2026
Mpumalanga’s Emakhazeni fails to bill residents as its towns crumble
The municipality ran up a deficit of R21-million in the 2024/25 financial year
Feature | 7 April 2026
Judge orders Tark Group directors to personally repay covid contract profits
The Special Tribunal has ruled that R14-million in contracts for surgical masks and protective jumpsuits bypassed bid processes
Law | 7 April 2026
Life in Lesotho’s historic Kome Caves
The dwellings were occupied in the early 1800s by families fleeing the Lifaqane wars
Text by Sechaba Mokhethi. Photos by Barry Christianson.
Feature | 6 April 2026
Take me to the river: baptisms in Joburg’s polluted water
Years of systemic failures have poisoned the Klip River
By Seth Thorne
News | 3 April 2026
How fuel hikes impact the price of bread
Record diesel prices will increase food production costs
Chart by The Outlier. Text by Jacques Malherbe.
Charts | 3 April 2026
Over 300 judgments outstanding for more than six months
Some matters have been outstanding for more than four years
News | 2 April 2026
Nigel families waiting 30 years for promised RDP homes
About 100 households still live in shacks in Alra Park while their neighbours on either side live in completed RDP houses
Brief | 2 April 2026
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Waiting for decades, and the system stands still: Housing backlog
For many applicants on the council housing waiting list, time does not move forward; it circles bac… Read more
Cable theft is the elephant in this room: Shosholoza Meyl
Almost the entire rail network was electrified decades ago, and with the price of diesel skyrocketi… Read more
Good work done by Mathsmoms
It was so heartening to read about what moms are doing to help our children improve their Maths and… Read more