[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[SAnews.gov.za] The twenty people who were arrested for allegedly inciting public violence through social media and other platforms during the period of unrests in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng as well as other parts of the country are expected to appear in...

[SAnews.gov.za] The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Flood Disaster Relief and Recovery has raised concern about lack of coordination and integrated plans to resolve the housing needs of people displaced by the floods.

[GroundUp] Cape Town -- When Dane Herrington goes to bed, he moves his belongings, books and clothing to the front of his beloved 1984 Ford Sierra. He sleeps on a large mattress at the back. He uses a shower at a petrol station. For ten years, he has...

[The Conversation Africa] Even before the pandemic and the recent global rise in food prices, millions of South Africans were hungry. In 2019, nearly 18% of households could not access enough nutritious food for a healthy and productive life. Child s...

[The Herald] Zimbabwe and South Africa will work together to find a common solution on the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP that are due to expire at the end of this year.

[GroundUp] We reported a leaking standpipe 18 months ago. It is still leaking

[spotlight] Taking a widely available antibiotic after condomless sex can reduce the risk of contracting three different sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to a study presented last week at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal, Canada.

[UCT] As it intended almost three decades ago, the Khayelitsha Cervical Cancer Screening Project (KCCSP) has touched and changed the lives of thousands of women and adolescent girls living in Khayelitsha. The clinic is one of the community's most pri...

[Govt of SA] Remarks by the Premier of the Province of KwaZulu-Natal Nomusa Dube-Ncube on the occasion of the introduction of the new members of the provincial executive council at Archie Gumede Conference Centre

[SAnews.gov.za] Human Settlements Deputy Minister, Pamela Tshwete, has reiterated that title deeds are not a licence to sell government subsidised houses.

[GroundUp] Satellite station in ruins as shootings rise in township

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[SAnews.gov.za] General Fhedzisani Pandelani from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, has assured claimants from the tragic 2012 Marikana incident, that their cases could be settled by the end of the month.

[VOA] Johannesburg, South Africa -- The National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa says at least 14 men out of dozens arrested face rape charges in an attack on a group of women who were making a music video earlier this month.

[The Conversation Africa] The world's largest and heaviest living carnivore is not a big cat, a bear or a wolf: it's the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina). Bulls of this species can be 5 metres long and can weigh up to 3,500kg. The Cape fur s...

[ISS] Large-scale attacks provoke outrage, but so should the daily devastation wreaked by murder, rape and brutality in South Africa.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Financial interest in African countries' resources is the determining factor negatively influencing governance and peace efforts, South Africa's  Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi  Pandor said d...

[DW] A group of seven self-employed miners in South Africa have been charged with raping eight women at abandoned mine in late July. Seven more men are due to be charged later on Thursday, prosecutors said.

[The Conversation Africa] There's been outrage from some quarters in South Africa about reports that the power utility Eskom and some municipalities intend to increase the connection fee for electricity users who also generate their own power.

[spotlight] Describing her new job as CEO of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, Juliet Houghton quotes the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu saying - "There is only one way to eat an elephant - one bite at a time."

[GroundUp] Some are perilously close to breaking the Code of Judicial Conduct

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Spelling out the Biden Administration's new strategy for sub-Saharan Africa on Monday, the United States Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, both declared that the U.S. and African nations should be "equal partners" and ap...

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's ruling party recently proposed establishing a second state-owned power company. The purpose is to offset the "grave strategic risk" of relying on Eskom, the country's monolithic state-owned utility.

[TechCrunch] Manufacturing plants or factories take raw material inputs and add value through a sequence of unit processes before shipping a product. Now, this process must follow a recipe. There are a series of instructions for products such as cars...

[GroundUp] A full day has been set aside for the Labour Court in Johannesburg to hear the case next week

[GroundUp] About 31 households at Backstage in Khayelitsha want the City to relocate them to serviced sites.

[State Department] The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:

[UCT] African-language-speaking students at South African universities must enjoy the same learning privileges afforded to English- and Afrikaans-speaking students. Changing South Africa's language learning policy is crucial to this process and a fun...