An estimated 1,800 state-owned firearms are being lost or stolen every year, entering the illicit market and finding their ...

Former Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers in EThekwini municipality have been picketing outside the Durban city ...

Crime involving firearms and extortion has prevented the municipality, Eskom and SASSA from providing essential services ...

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 ...

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 ...

FEATURED STORY - Metres away from the entrance to the Airport Industria depot, the smell of human waste and chemicals is already unbearable. Inside, about 100 people in overalls are emptying portable ...

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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, ...