Three-day protest in Soweto over power outages
On top of scheduled “load reduction” stolen cables left Meadowlands in the dark for days
Brief | 12 June 2025
Benoni pensioners take to the streets
Fix our flats, protesters tell municipality
Brief | 12 June 2025
Social grants go unpaid as beneficiaries struggle with SASSA’s system
Activists say they get dozens of complaints weekly about the online verification process
News | 12 June 2025
Lottery official’s pension frozen by Special Tribunal
Sanele Dlamini had been found guilty of gross misconduct by the NLC
Law | 12 June 2025
New book by Edwin Cameron gives practical steps to reform prisons
“The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs”
By Elna Schütz
News | 8 June 2025
Setback for casual workers as court rules forum is not a union
But Simunye Workers Forum can still amend its constitution and reapply for registration
Law | 3 June 2025
Closure of US-funded cancer clinic further burdens public hospitals
Hundreds of patients will likely be transferred from the Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention Clinic at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg.
By Elna Schütz
News | 2 June 2025
New play challenges xenophobia
Graveland is running at the Market Theatre until Sunday, 1 June
Text by Jan Bornman. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.
News | 31 May 2025
Cash-strapped City Power in tense standoff with protesters in Alexandra
The power utility says more than 800 households in Riverpark were either not buying electricity at all or had “suspiciously low” purchase rates
Brief | 30 May 2025