South Africa

Elderly people march in Pretoria, demanding houses

Some have been waiting since 1996

Free State students return to class after protests pause

But SRC warns protests could start again if the university’s management fails to follow through on its commitments

Bishopscourt land claimants to finally break ground on housing development

This comes 20 years after their claim was officially granted

Students disrupt classes amid housing crisis

NSFAS blamed for student accommodation challenges

Nyanga and Khayelitsha train services suspended because of fire

Metrorail says services should be restored in two days

Protest erupts after neighbourhood without power for weeks

KwaNobuhle councillor urges residents to attend ward meetings

Khayelitsha school still without stationery

Western Cape Education Department has urged the formation of a school governing body to help deal with issues at the school

Over 15,000 South African health workers’ jobs are at risk as US cuts aid

Some harm reduction and LGBTI services have already closed

Judge fights to clear her name

Johannesburg High Court Judge Denise Fisher says she acted lawfully and in line with the Constitution

Gauteng Department of Social Development ordered to explain its funding decisions

Unfunded non-profit organisations to file a combined summons

18 vehicles burnt in Nyanga

This comes nearly a month after a deadly shooting at the township’s taxi rank.

This SASSA office opens earlier to deal with “high influx” of clients

A community worker says she sleeps outside the office to secure spaces for elderly or disabled people

Patients have to get water brought to them at this Durban hospital

Municipality is rationing water to large parts of the city

Explainer: HIV, HPV and cervical cancer

Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives

But we must not allow peddlers of hate to undermine our fragile constitutional democracy

CPUT students protest against their “dire” accommodation

Students have been sleeping outside and in hallways