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More than anything else, Paul Dawid Vogelsang wants his language to be heard on radio, taught and to be spoken. Vogelsang, who is 64, speaks Nama, an indigenous Khoekhoe language that has faced ...

Patients and staff at Khayelitsha Community Health Centre in Cape Town are at risk from electricity cables running to shacks nearby. Shack dwellers staying in nearby Lindelani Park have been ...

The newly elected Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe ordered the closure of eight immigrant-owned shops on Monday afternoon, in an operation conducted jointly by health and Home Affairs ...

My elderly relative is living in a frail care facility. The staff took her SASSA card to buy "extra things" not provided by the home, like snacks, etc. But they never provide receipts, even after I ...

Raw sewage is flowing in the streets of Sithembile township in Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal, where residents have been struggling with water shortages for six months. Most areas in the township have had no ...

Limpopo’s historic Elim Hospital does not have a functioning X-ray machine. Patients have to be sent to Louis Trichardt for X-rays. The hospital, which is more than 100 years old, has not had a ...

More than 300 workers from Premier’s Mister Sweet branch in Germiston will return to work on 11 November, after negotiations on Friday brought their 11-week strike to an end. The Simunye Workers Forum ...

Ian Blose, who was once an accused in a corruption trial and was suspended from practicing in relation to a trust fund deficit, was appointed as a magistrate in 2020. His past came into the spotlight ...

About 200 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers at Pikitup downed tools on Tuesday to protest outside Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero’s office. The workers want the City of Johannesburg to ...

In November 2023, Metro health services in Cape Town requested the suspension of a mobile clinic after residents complained it was giving out needles to drug users. The program was halted for four ...

We started our third and final walk from the parking lot of the Aquatics Centre in Extension 9, Eldorado Park, which has not re-opened after being shut during the COVID pandemic. Beyond the lot’s low ...