Lorraine Muzendami was among the group of miners who hid in the reeds and were badly burnt during an Operation Vala Umgodi ...

Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture ...

City Power teams removed about 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at approximately R6-million from Kanana informal ...

The council and its disciplinary committee not only failed to act in the public interest but also contributed to injustice, ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

Africa Energy Week (AEW) will be hosted in Cape Town from the 4 to 8 November, and boasts that it is “Africa’s biggest ...

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Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe has called for an urgent meeting with Postbank and the Reserve Bank to sort out ...

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Eric van Rooy is 69. He grew up in the little town of Wupperthal in the Western Cape, and has lived there most of his life. He worked in the old glove factory for a while before it closed down. Now, ...

More than 17 million people applied for the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in September 2024, according to the latest figures supplied by the South African Social Security Agency ...

Our article on the failures of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system has unfortunately been met with a very defensive response from SASSA.