Eskom customers should first check their meter’s status by entering a code. If an upgrade is needed, they must obtain Key ...

Angelina Meletsi remembers saying goodbye to her 33-year-old son Skhilo in August, when he left their Khuma home in Stilfontein in North West Province. He was on his way to try his luck in an ...

The minimum wage was introduced in 2019 to protect vulnerable workers, but it has proven inadequate to lift people out of ...

Over 3,000 families in Silver Town, Khayelitsha, have been forced to either use filthy, damaged toilets or relieve themselves ...

Lawyers representing hundreds of early childhood development centres in KwaZulu-Natal say the provincial education department ...

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has slammed John Hlophe for intervening in a straightforward eviction case when he had been the judge president in the Western Cape. The SCA has found that Hlophe ...

Representatives of over 300 families occupying land in Rabie Ridge, south of Midrand in Gauteng, went to court on Tuesday to fight their eviction by the City of Johannesburg. The occupiers say the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was in 2003, while photographing the devastating impacts of tik (crystal meth or methamphetamine) in Cape Town’s poor communities, that I first met Turner Adams. With an entire life etched into his ...

Chaos erupted at the Phumla Mqashi informal settlement near Lenasia, Johannesburg, on Tuesday as angry residents chased away Joburg Water technicians who had come to remove illegal water connections.

A shortage of beds at Uitenhage Provincial Hospital in Kariega has meant some patients have to lie on the floor. GroundUp saw several patients on blankets or mattresses on the floor of the hospital, ...