In photos: Festival brings fun to Melville’s streets
The third edition of The Happening festival hopes to boost community morale and local businesses
Photo Essay | 30 March 2026
Human Rights festival highlights plight of domestic workers
Domestic workers are often underpaid, overworked, given poor accommodation and no benefits
Brief | 30 March 2026
Court warns government: stop vigilantes blocking clinic access
The Department of Health and other government respondents have failed to comply with a court order to stop anti-immigrant vigilantes screening patients
Brief | 27 March 2026
Ekurhuleni’s “ghost workers” demand jobs and compensation
About 200 former EPWP workers say the municipal database shows them earning salaries 11 years after their contracts ended
Brief | 26 March 2026
“We can go weeks without water, and no one seems to care”
Elderly residents of Lehae in Johannesburg battle to fetch water
News | 25 March 2026
Hundreds of Soweto residents protest in Pretoria for a flat rate electricity tariff
They want the regulator to introduce a flat rate of R350 for poor households
Brief | 23 March 2026
SA Human Rights Commission must compel government to end hunger, activists demand
1 in 5 households experience moderate food insecurity, according to StatsSA
Brief | 23 March 2026
Sharpeville forgotten by government
Memorials honouring the victims of the 1960 massacre are falling into ruin, but local activists are stepping up to improve the township
By Seth Thorne
Feature | 21 March 2026
Joburg metro cops destroy shacks in Ennerdale
Build us new homes, demand occupiers of land meant for housing that was never built
News | 19 March 2026