The laws “have not deterred … the selling or buying of sex … and are not rationally capable of doing so. They merely create greater stigma and vulnerability among sex workers and violate their rights.

While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which ...

Over 100 people from ward 105 on the south coast of Durban picketed outside the city hall on Thursday, demanding tap water.

Across the country, potholes are an all too familiar and frustrating feature of South Africa’s roads. Archive photo: Barbara ...

The UIF online portal has been down for six weeks, including uFiling, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data and Virtual ...

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 ...

Hundreds of protesters from Fleurhof, west of Johannesburg, took to the streets early on Tuesday morning, demanding the government build schools, a clinic and a police station in their area. They ...

Municipalities, provincial governments and legislatures, and even some institutions set up to defend the Constitution, are flouting the provisions of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA).

Housing activists have cautiously welcomed the City of Cape Town’s announcement that portions of the Mowbray Golf Course may be released for mixed-use development, including affordable housing. On ...

A teacher arrested for domestic violence has successfully sued the Minister of Police. Evidence during the trial was that the police were unaware of the law and a national instruction, which gives ...

“The nice part about what we do is the day that we actually release a bird,” says Jacques Nel, the founder of the Owl Orphanage Rehabilitation Centre. Situated in Velddrif alongside the Berg River, ...

A withering attack on the new National Lotteries Commission (NLC) in Parliament last week was led by three men: chair of the trade and industry portfolio committee Mzwandile Masina, former minister ...