Judges grill Treasury on SRD grant

SCA judge questions whether “people without the means to even buy a cellphone” should have to apply online

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Law | 25 August 2026

R233-million spent on buses for fleeing immigrants

About 100,000 people have left South Africa since June

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Brief | 25 August 2026

Parents close Cape Town school for three days because of sewage leak

Education department says it will be fixed by Wednesday

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Brief | 25 August 2026

Readers’ donations get church band going again

Instruments worth R100,000 were stolen from the Samora Machel band and sold for scrap

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Brief | 25 August 2026

Fired for being foreign: how employers gave in to March and March threats

The Casual Workers Advice Office has recorded a sharp rise in reports of xenophobic labour practices in Gauteng

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News | 25 August 2026

University official must pay back R18m after taking student housing bribes

Labour Court finds Andries Helani accepted more than R3.2-million in payments linked to private student accommodation providers

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Law | 24 August 2026

Lesotho, SA courts freeze assets in M700m clothing industry fraud case

Appeals have delayed the implementation of two forfeiture judgments handed down in May

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Law | 24 August 2026

World’s largest research funder lifts ban on South Africa

Many clinical trials were halted, and many researchers were retrenched when the NIH stopped funding

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News | 24 August 2026

In photos: Artists’ stories of heritage and migration

Matereality V2 opens at the Iziko South African National Gallery on Monday

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Photo Essay | 24 August 2026