South Africa|Gauteng

Judge scolds Ekurhuleni municipality for trying to dodge court order

Municipality has tried to back out of settlement to buy unlawfully occupied buildings

PRASA sues whistleblower for R45 million

The rail agency refused to answer questions on its legal action against suspended head of legal services Martha Ngoye

Platinum mine tense after assassination of unionist

NUMSA’s Malibongwe Mdazo was gunned down outside the CCMA office in Rustenburg

PRASA promises to fix Pretoria’s collapsing train stations

The rail agency says it plans to make its dilapidated stations “functional” by end of March and address their “look and feel” by December 2022

Joburg’s informal traders call for police to stop confiscating their goods

Traders pay between R1,600 and R3,000 to retrieve their stock

Court rebukes minister for refusing to appoint white magistrate

Martin Kroukamp was recommended to be Alberton’s Senior Magistrate in 2011. A decade later he may finally be appointed

Millions of rands in suspicious transactions found in accounts of Limpopo land claimants

Court upholds decision to withdraw state funding for Moletele Community Property Association

Gauteng government takes vaccination drive to informal settlements

And Saaberie Chishty Society helps get people vaccinated outside their homes

GroundUp journalists win Nat Nakasa award for lottery reporting

PRASA has left East Rand train stations in ruins

“What happened in the recent looting around the country is almost similar to what we saw here”

Small businesses in Gauteng may never open again after July riots

Shopkeepers say they are unlikely to be able to access relief funds

Volunteers are fixing looted Soweto markets

“It was scary to see this area go from busy to what felt like a ghost town overnight”

Court orders church to pay transgender woman R600,000 in damages

International Pentecost Holiness Church members undressed Karabo Ndlovu to conduct a gender test

Constitutional Court rules that Jon Qwelane did commit hate speech

But the Supreme Court of Appeal decision on the vagueness of the hate speech law has been upheld. Parliament has been given 24 months to rectify it

Operation Show Your Receipt: “They came in and took our mealie meal and oil”

Activists question legality of confiscating food from poor households

Farm dwellers and emerging farmers clash with each other and government over land

Families that have resided on Bapsfontein farm for many decades fear eviction