Immigrant spaza shop owners battle to meet registration deadline
Problems with documents from Home Affairs affect shop owners’ ability to comply with President Ramaphosa’s announcement about food outlets
News | 7 March 2025
Renowned cartoonist to move to Cape Town to finish his life’s work
Mogorosi Motshumi is finishing two graphic books
By Tladi Moloi and Sean Christie
News | 7 March 2025
Minister issues tender for 12-month temporary lottery licence
Critics say this favours Ithuba, the current operator
News | 6 March 2025
Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card
Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely
By Joseph Bracken and Marecia Damons
News | 6 March 2025
My five-hour wait for treatment at Mamelodi hospital
Gauteng Health MEC has said Mamelodi Regional Hospital meets National Health Insurance standards, but my experience was not good
News | 6 March 2025
Benoni pensioners ask City to scrap millions of rands of debt
City of Ekurhuleni says Actonville rental tenants collectively owe R33-million
News | 6 March 2025
My chaotic train journey from Johannesburg to Durban
“It is obvious PRASA was not prepared for this journey” says frustrated commuter after long-distance train breaks down several times
News | 5 March 2025
More than 20 dead and hundreds displaced in KZN floods
Sithembiso Mbutho died crossing the Mthwalume River. Residents have been pleading for the government to build a bridge
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 5 March 2025
About 1.9-million people still need to swap gold cards as SASSA deadline looms
Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”
News | 4 March 2025