The second-smallest provincial department by budget allocation is leveraging its savings to bankroll a R20 million digital overhaul aimed at eradicating paper-based bureaucracy, stamping out tender corruption and multiplying productivity in the next three years.
The City of Joburg still faces the mammoth task of reclaiming nearly 500 hijacked and illegally occupied buildings despite restoring 59 properties over the past decade.
As South Africa’s criminal justice system confronts increasingly complex forms of crime, the debate over how to measure prosecutorial success has gained renewed importance. While conviction rates should be interpreted alongside broader justice indicators, they remain a constitutionally grounded and internationally recognised measure of prosecutorial effectiveness, reflecting the NPA’s...
Residents facing water injustices demand that the City of Cape Town account for, and change, its anti-poor, racist and sexist free basic water policy practices. The dismissive response to Black people from poor communities who engage the City about their struggles with access to water is unacceptable, undemocratic and unjust.
The South African Weather Service has forecast partly cloudy, cool to warm conditions for most of the country, while isolated showers are expected in parts of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.
Hundreds of people took to the streets in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki on Monday to protest moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a military base there, residents told Reuters, days after the High Court ordered the government to suspend the plan temporarily.
With a R3.8 billion boost to help South Africa move away from fossil fuels like oil and coal for producing energy, how well is the country doing on keeping its promise to help the world’s temperature stay at manageable levels? Bhekisisa takes a look at the data in the first of a three-part series
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Flood disasters in South Africa are not only natural events. Pollution and poor river management are causing far worse damage, as was shown during the recent extreme weather in the Western Cape.