Zeekoevlei is used by schools and clubs for sailing and rowing but a toxic algal bloom has led to it being closed since ...

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality officials will visit Westville informal settlement next Tuesday to give feedback on its plan for the area ...

Learners at a rural school in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape are being taught outside because classrooms are overflowing. The school, built in 1990, has 487 learners in grades 8 to 12. The Eastern Cape ...

Malamulele Hospital serves dozens of villages within a 25 km radius, including Josefa, Gumbani and Mavambe, and queues are always long, patients said. When GroundUp visited, we saw family and visitors ...

The government plans to spend about R292.8-billion on social grants in the 2026/27 financial year. This includes R36.9-billion allocated to the social relief of distress (SRD) grant for unemployed ...

Thanks to higher-than-expected revenue in 2025, a plan to increase income taxes to collect an extra R20-billion has been scrapped. And for the first time since 2024, income tax brackets and rebates ...

The City of Johannesburg’s revenue from water is R11.9-billion, but only R1.3 billion is allocated to Joburg Water for capital expenditure, Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana said on Wednesday.

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Employee cannot succeed in constructive dismissal claim because he anticipates that working conditions will become ...

With a backlog of 600,000 housing units and the state only providing 2,500 a year, there is a role for the private sector to ...

Ngoye said PRASA had terminated their employment because they had sought to uphold the rule of law and expose the abuse of power within the organisation. And yet, while the courts had found PRASA had ...

The Labour Court has dismissed a bid by former Heathfield High principal Wesley Neumann to be reinstated while an appeal by ...