The invite was a “sop to inclusivity and disrespectful” to stakeholders and homeless people, says Raymond Perrier of the ...

Research shows that people are more successful at quitting heroin when they enrol in opioid agonist therapy (OAT) programs, ...

Twelve matriculants from Isikhoba Nombewu Technical School who passed in 2021 are still waiting for their certificates ...

A number of dismissed lottery officials who have lodged appeals, as well as suspended officials, continue to draw salaries ...

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The 8th National Homeless Conversation was held in Durban this week. Homeless people shared harrowing stories of discrimination and abuse. The meeting heard how a disjointed state response is ...

When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines where they illegally mine for gold, they sometimes resort to eating a mixture of toothpaste and toilet paper. “You mix a soft porridge ...

The head of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Project at Lawyers for Human Rights says it is unconstitutional to target and exclude foreign nationals from running spaza shops in communities. This follows ...

An unlimited volume of untreated sewage is now allowed to be pumped out to sea by the City of Cape Town, following a decision by environment minister Dion George. This was revealed in George’s ...

Over a thousand homes in Gugulethu in Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, depend on just six water tanks for all their needs – cooking, drinking, laundry and flushing toilets. Recently, GroundUp was shown how ...

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 ...