Many Cape Town stations are closed to wheelchair users
And the “People’s Train” is inaccessible to many people
News | 4 October 2024
Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs
Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people
By Daniel Steyn and Joseph Bracken
News | 4 October 2024
Rooigevaar in Saldanha: residents say red dust from Transnet’s ore terminal is staining their homes and even their dogs
But Transnet says the dust falls below legal limits
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 4 October 2024
The public swimming pool in this Eastern Cape town has been empty for four years
Ngcobo residents fear the pool will be vandalised and never reopen
Brief | 3 October 2024
Citrusdal farmers devastated by two years of floods
But they are determined to start over and revive their vegetable gardens yet again
By Liezl Human
News | 3 October 2024
Three of four Shosholoza Meyl train routes halted indefinitely
#UniteBehind believes problems with long distance locomotives is due to corruption at PRASA over the years.
News | 3 October 2024
The fate of the GNU will depend on what it does to fix collapsing municipalities
The Government of National Unity offers an opportunity to take practical steps
By Tsireletso Mokoaqo and Rientile Mdaka
Opinion | 3 October 2024
Germiston informal settlement neglected since dawn of democracy
“We have rats that are as big as cats here”
Brief | 2 October 2024
More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September
Most applicants have never had a job
Brief | 2 October 2024