In this town, old women have to relieve themselves in a field
Some families have been living in Aloe-T informal settlement in Komani, Eastern Cape, since 1997
News | 26 August 2026
Judges grill Treasury on SRD grant
SCA judge questions whether “people without the means to even buy a cellphone” should have to apply online
Law | 25 August 2026
R233-million spent on buses for fleeing immigrants
About 100,000 people have left South Africa since June
By Liezl Human
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
By Vincent Lali
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
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
By Seth Thorne
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
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
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
By Liezl Human
News | 24 August 2026
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