Nearly three weeks after they were supposed to be paid, a number of SRD grant beneficiaries who had their applications approved in October are still waiting for their payments.

Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina wanted to assure South Africans that the country has enough water. However, she added a “but”.

Robbers have made off with an undisclosed amount of cash, after bombing a cash-in-transit vehicle in Rustenburg.

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has suspended lawmaker Ofer Cassif for six months due to comments he made about the IDF, the war in Gaza, and his support for South Africa accusing his country of genocide against Palestinians.

Gang violence and child recruitment are escalating in Cape Town’s Cape Flats area, especially as the festive season approaches.

An invasive beetle known as the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) has infested over 5,000 trees across Cape Town, threatening the city’s urban forest.

Cape Town’s first mass timber dome, featuring a Khoekhoen heritage exhibit, is set to open in Green Point Urban Park on 20 November.

Murder, robberies and commercial crime are on the rise in the Muizenberg policing precinct.

The ongoing sewage crisis in Mogale City Local Municipality has spilled over to communities and businesses, as streams of sewage flow through their properties, making conditions unbearable.

Vacant posts for a deputy principal, three heads of department, eight teachers and two administrative clerks and 17 mobile classrooms that have never been used since 2020 because of the non-delivery of furniture – these were some of the shocking findings made by a parliamentary committee on education at a school in Mpumalanga.

Moses Kotane Local Municipality speaker Gugulethu Mtshali has described the municipality as one where officials use patronage to silence communities and councillors who question wrongdoing, among other allegations.

New regulations likely to come into force early next year will require South Africa’s roughly 200 000 healers to register with a regulatory council that will oversee their practice. But opposing views between healers and the health department could scupper the plan.

Eskom has withdrawn its threat to cut electricity supply to Johannesburg after mediation by the Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.

The family of Gilliano Sass, an Elsies River teenager who was shot dead in during a drive-by shooting last Wednesday, say they are living in fear since his untimely death.

Brackenfell police, in collaboration with the police Drone Unit, conducted a targeted raid on a farm near Bottelary Road, arresting a known drug dealer.

Eastern Cape police are searching for a 20-year-old Somalian student who was kidnapped in Gqeberha over the weekend.

As the science stands, the vast majority of the roughly eight million people in South Africa living with HIV will have to get treatment for the rest of their lives.

Anelisa Mkolwana has been writing her exams on an empty stomach because she does not have a bank account to qualify for an annual living allowance from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS).

A week after former Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Gary van Niekerk swapped seats with the ANC’s Babalwa Lobishe, previously his deputy, the newly elected mayor announced the metro’s new coalition government on Friday – with the surprise absence of the Patriotic Alliance.

Repairs to the 64-year-old Mbokodweni River bridge near Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal, which collapsed partially on Tuesday, could take up to two months.

Ressano Garcia border post immigration officers fled to South Africa after they came under attack in Mozambique and protesters damaged the government properties they live in.