Every month, millions of South African girls miss school because they can’t afford sanitary towels. Activist and actor Siv Ngesi shares how this devastating fact led to the founding of the MENstruation Foundation and why restoring dignity does not need policy change.

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Riaan Manser and Professor Jonathan Jansen recently teamed up to fan the flames of courage, hope and a love of the outdoors in schoolchildren at Jansen’s Crestway High School in Retreat, Cape Town.

In deep rural KwaZulu-Natal, a physiotherapist and a paraplegic peer supporter travel dusty roads to repair wheelchairs, counsel families and restore dignity to people with disabilities – one home visit at a time.

As some families in Langa, Cape Town, struggle to keep up with the ever-increasing cost of school shoes for their children, three young entrepreneurship postgraduates have developed a groundbreaking innovation that could see school shoes lasting children a few extra years.

Three people have been killed, and a 15-year-old girl wounded in a suspected gang-related shooting in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town.

Parkwood resident Elizabeth Edwards installed solar panels and switched to Egoli gas to reduce her reliance on the grid. But to her surprise, her electricity bill from City Power and the City of Johannesburg soared to more than R60 000.

It’s a relatively simple procedure, but Lesego Mthabela says surgery to correct her son Sandile Mthabela’s squint has changed his life.

Evidence suggests Prasa’s shadowy security head, Alexio Papadopulo, helped alleged gang boss Ralph Stanfield capture key aspects of the multibillion-rand Cape Town Central Line railway reconstruction project.

KwaZulu-Natal police have shot dead two men, aged 20 and 25, who were allegedly wanted in connection with multiple cases of murder and attempted murder.

Two children and three adults have died in a head-on collision between a hatchback vehicle and a bus on the N6 between East London and Stutterheim.

A 38-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of his wife, whose body was found in a recycling bag in a stream in Vereeniging, according to Gauteng police.

Nine taxis were set alight at the Nyanga taxi rank in Cape Town in the early hours of Friday morning amid ongoing tension in the industry in the Western Cape.

When Sergeant Sinovuyo Seti pinned on his new rank at Mitchells Plain Police Station last week, the celebration extended far beyond the station walls. His family and the community were overjoyed.

A 47-year-old Cape Town man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of a man and the attempted rape of another at a shelter for homeless people in Akasia, Pretoria.

While Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) has successfully deracialised ownership and created a new class of wealthy black South Africans, it has fallen short of meaningfully reducing poverty for the majority.

Police divers are searching for an American tourist who went missing while swimming in Cape Town.

A judge has ordered property developer Rali Mampeule to stop making defamatory claims that Masondo is involved in “corruption, bribery and unethical business activities”.

Attempted-murder-accused Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe’s bail application has again been pushed back.

The region is key to South Africa’s agriculture, both for exports and for its influence on oil and gas prices, says Wandile Sihlobo.

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition has quietly set up a departmental task team to investigate the macro-manufacturing of counterfeit alchohol.