The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure conducted an oversight visit at the Telkom Towers complex on ...

Ahead of a six-month scheduled stoppage in supply from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), which provides water to ...

Hundreds of environmental activists from various organisations took to the streets of Sandton calling for a boycott of the ...

Across the country, potholes are an all too familiar and frustrating feature of South Africa’s roads. Archive photo: Barbara ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

The bucket eradication programme, started in 2012, has been through three departments and five implementing agents ...

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

Hundreds of workers marched in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban on Monday to mark World Day for Decent Work. In Cape Town ...

At least 50 people attended an interfaith vigil at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening to mark one year of war in ...

Now, she’s getting evicted. On 19 August, she received notice to vacate her residence by 30 September. This was later ...

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While the USMB standards were previously used as a guide, the newly published limits provide concrete, set levels over which mines may not blast. For instance, a mine’s blasting operations may no ...