News
Sewage on the seashore: Here’s what’s causing Cape Town’s beach closures
Loadshedding at pump stations blamed for most closures
News | 13 January 2023
Undocumented children struggle to find schools
Instead of being in school some beg at traffic lights
News | 13 January 2023
Mystery: Why did a youth movement get lottery funding to build an old age home that doesn’t appear to be needed?
Five years later, the R27.5-million facility hasn’t opened
News | 12 January 2023
Gardening project helps patients recover from mental illness
The Spring Foundation at Lentegeur Hospital has several projects to rehabilitate patients
By Daniel Steyn
News | 11 January 2023
Another Postbank “glitch” delays January social grant payments
“We came to the Post Office and they said there was no money”
News | 11 January 2023
Rubbish hasn’t been collected for weeks in parts of Gqeberha
“We couldn’t enjoy Christmas lunch under these smelly conditions”
News | 10 January 2023
The Gollong racket has collapsed but there are new scams around
Gullible and desperate South Africans are falling prey to sophisticated international scammers
News | 10 January 2023
190 people left homeless after Khayelitsha fire
Families devastated, with newly-bought school uniforms and stationery burnt in the fire
By Vincent Lali
News | 9 January 2023
New medicines for drug-resistant TB will save lives. But will they be affordable where they are most needed?
Study, published today in New England Journal Medicine, shows that a new regimen is safer and more effective than the current standard of care.
By Daniel Steyn and Nathan Geffen
News | 22 December 2022