Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
We’re not criminals, say Transnet land occupiers
9+ min ago (904+ words) More than 160 people living on ten Transnet-owned sites in Woodstock and Salt River are appealing an eviction order handed down in the Western Cape High Court by Judge Derek Wille last month. The court had given the occupiers until 30 September…...
How much did judges really spend on their Durban conference?
6+ hour, 39+ min ago (687+ words) Some judges expressed alarm when they were provided plane ticket options for R8,500 and R9,195 for a Johannesburg–Durban roundtrip that normally costs about R3,000. Illustration: Lisa Nelson A return economy plane ticket at a cost of R8,501 between Johannesburg and Durban was quoted…...
Sugar workers down tools
20+ hour, 53+ min ago (309+ words) Tongaat Hulett workers protested outside the company’s offices north of Durban on Wednesday, demanding a 13% wage increase against the employers’ offer of 5.4%. They are also asking for a R1,000 transport allowance and a R1,500 housing allowance. Workers from several sugar producers, mostly…...
Our classrooms “will collapse on us”, says Limpopo learner
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (377+ words) “We feel abandoned. We are afraid our classrooms will collapse on us,” a grade 9 learner at Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village, Limpopo, told GroundUp. Parents and learners at Radzambo have for years complained about overcrowded classrooms, the dilapidated state…...
Four months of raw sewage on Durban road
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (257+ words) Streams of raw sewage from three overflowing manholes along the main road in Siyanda A near KwaMashu have started to form deep pools. Residents say this has been going on for at least four months and they have repeatedly reported…...
Thousands of students told to leave Cape Town residences
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (394+ words) Thousands of Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students have been given until Wednesday to vacate residences at campuses across the metro. This follows days of protests by students who want CPUT to withdraw its draft 2027 financial recovery plan. The…...
More than 2.5-million succulents seized from poachers
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (500+ words) Since 2018, about 2.5-million illegally harvested succulent plants have been seized by authorities in the Western Cape. But this probably accounts for less than one quarter of the numbers poached, CapeNature told the Western Cape provincial Parliament on Tuesday. CapeNature, the…...
Eastern Cape protesters win fight against municipal manager
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (375+ words) Days of protests have ended in Ngcobo as residents welcomed the “precautionary suspension” of Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality municipal manager Khathutshelo Mulaudzi. Last week, we reported that the Ngcobo Yethu Civic Organisation shut down the town, forcing businesses and…...
Mfuleni shack dwellers protest outside Premier’s office
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (378+ words) Over 100 shack dwellers from Mfuleni marched to the Western Cape Premier’s office and the Civic Centre in Cape Town on Friday to demand water and electricity. This follows a shack fire in November last year in which Noyiba Thini and…...
Why do Joburg’s taps keep running dry?
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (1118+ words) “I am sick and tired of lugging around water containers hoping to find a running tap. It is no way to live,” said Simon Banda from Melville, protesting on Friday morning with dozens of residents from areas fed by the…...