Are our matric results really improving?

A close look at the statistics raises troubling questions

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Analysis | 22 January 2020

We have become mosquito food, say families living along filthy canal

Part of Gugulethu canal clogged with rubbish after employment dispute

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News | 22 January 2020

Muncipality breaks its promise to fix taxi rank toilets

After six months, streams of urine still flow from broken toilets

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Brief | 22 January 2020

Learners sent home after municipality cuts water supply to Pietermaritzburg school

School ran up bill of R2 million, says municipality

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Brief | 21 January 2020

Taxi driver told he owes municipality R68,000 for water

Water leak outside his house has not been fixed since 2018

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News | 21 January 2020

Witsand residents protest against arrest of street patrollers

12 members of patrol face charges including assault, kidnapping, and attempted murder

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Brief | 21 January 2020

Huge West Coast wind farm approved

But conditions include a revised environmental management plan and site layout

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News | 21 January 2020

Protesters shut clinic in Pietermaritzburg

Willowfontein residents demand municipality keeps promise to fix road

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Brief | 21 January 2020

City of Cape Town refuses to say how many shacks were demolished at the weekend

Zweledinga informal settlement in Khayelitsha destroyed

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News | 21 January 2020

Three months after they move in, family’s RDP house burns down

Fire in Wallacedene destroys 85 homes

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Brief | 20 January 2020

Experts lukewarm on exams in isiXhosa and Sesotho

Support for policy but concerns with implementation

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News | 20 January 2020

Home Affairs blocked my ID, says Free State man

Nathi Lepelesana used his ID to vote in SA elections. Now he’s been told he’s a Lesotho citizen

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News | 20 January 2020

Court decision is major victory for Eastern Cape learners

Makhanda High Court declares new school admission policy unconstitutional

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Law | 20 January 2020

Money from Lottery goes to cousin of National Lotteries Commission boss

Only a fraction of the R11 million grant appears to have gone to its intended purpose

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Feature | 20 January 2020

Domestic workers fight for national minimum wage

“We buy in the same shops, so we must be treated like all workers”

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News | 17 January 2020