18+ hour, 47+ min ago  (639+ words) Residents donned swimming caps, goggles and beach towels and held placards that read, "Restore access to community pools seven days a week" and "Fund our pools". They had come to a public participation meeting at the City of Cape Town's…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (363+ words) Gogo Nobesuthu Qayisa, 75, lives in a dilapidated one-room shack with two of her children and six of her grandchildren. The shack floods when it rains. There is no electricity or tap water and the toilet is not working. The family…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (872+ words) Motlalepula Lethala makes a living by ferrying people in a small aluminium boat across the Senqu River in Qacha's Nek, Lesotho. Screenshot from video: Ashraf Hendricks Every day at about 6am, Motlalepula Lethala pushes his small aluminium boat onto the Senqu…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (881+ words) Tshwane's Green Drop waste water treatment score has fallen from 82% in 2013 to 33. 8%, just above the threshold that triggers regulatory intervention. The Department of Water and Sanitation has given the City of Tshwane 60 days from 31 March to say what it plans…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (435+ words) More than 100 people gathered opposite the United States Consulate in Cape Town on Friday morning to protest the US-Iran war. The protest was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). Civil society organisations, including South African Jews for a Free…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (629+ words) The amount of available water in the dams supplying Kouga and Nelson Mandela Bay has slipped below 30% of total dam capacity. As at 7 April, the municipality's largest supply dam, Kouga (capacity 126 ML (megalitres)) is at 31%, and the second largest dam,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (926+ words) Two South African insurance giants collect 87% of all funeral policy premiums deducted directly from pension and disability grants paid out by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). Illustration: Lisa Nelson Client'le Life and Sanlam, along with their subsidiaries, collect…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (543+ words) In Ridgeway, south of Johannesburg, Zubair Patel watches as water flows into a mobile 1, 000-litre tanker. Printed on its side is a simple message: "The best form of charity is to give someone water" - a quote attributed to the Prophet…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (409+ words) At OR Tambo Secondary School in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, learners have to cross raw sewage to get to classes. The sewage is one of many problems learners face at this school, which parents say has been neglected by the education department....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (900+ words) At the Maseru passport office on Tuesday, people began arriving before sunrise. By mid-morning, the yard was full. Some stood in long queues hoping to submit new applications. Others clutched receipts, waiting to collect passports applied for months ago. Despite…...