Wheelchair users do not have access to many stations in Cape Town. Some have stairs without ramps or lifts; others have lifts ...

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

Residents of Saldanha Bay and nearby Vredenburg say red dust pollution from the Transnet Port Terminal, through which iron ore is exported, is staining their homes, cars, trees, roads and even pets.

PRASA says three of its four long-distance routes have been suspended. There is no indication when the services will resume.

Years of neglect have left many of our municipalities grappling with severe financial mismanagement, infrastructure ...

For two years, small-scale farmers in Citrusdal have battled heavy rains that completely devastated their vegetable crops.

For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing ...

More than 17 million people applied for the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in September 2024, according ...

Two housing occupations, both led by Reclaim the City, hosted open days last weekend to “showcase the affordable housing ...

The nice part about what we do is the day that we actually release a bird,” says Jacques Nel, the founder of the Owl ...

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 ...