Gauteng municipality pumping raw sewage into rivers in the Cradle of Humankind
All three of Mogale City’s wastewater treatment works have collapsed to critical levels.
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Anti-immigrant marches | Covid-19 pandemic | Cyril Ramaphosa | Fast News | Gauteng | Human Sciences Research Council
South Africans are far less tolerant of migrants than before
Hotspots, drivers and solutions.
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The average age of first-time home buyers drops into the 30s
Stats from Standard Bank show some remarkable trends among first-time home buyers – they’re getting younger, more women are receiving mortgage loans, and Gauteng accounts for nearly half the national affordable home loan uptake.
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Eastern Cape Health Department | Gauteng | government hospitals | Justice Ashton Schippers | South Africa | SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
The high cost of negligence in the public health system
Billions of rands are paid out every year in legal claims .
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Goodbye Western Cape – big shift in where middle-class South Africans want to live
More middle-class South Africans are turning away from the Western Cape for property.
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A community reckoning on the Senqu Bridge launch on 22 April 2026
On 22 April 2026, King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Honourable Prime Minister Ntsokoane Matekane and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa will meet in Mokhotlong to officiate and co-launch the opening of the Senqu Bridge, an 825m extradosed cable-stayed structure rising 90m above the valley floor, constructed at an estimated cost of…
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Overcrowding, infrastructure failures and school safety dominate Gauteng education MEC’s agenda — but deeper structural pressures remain unresolved
MEC Lebogang Maile’s State of Education briefing in Bryanston, Fourways, landed at a moment when Gauteng’s schooling system is under intense strain from rapid population growth, infrastructure decay and recurring safety incidents. Maile’s address signalled a department trying to project responsiveness while grappling with long-standing systemic pressures. Overcrowding as the central crisis His briefing was…
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Transport Minister Creecy reports 18% drop in Easter road fatalities
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy said 122 vehicles were discontinued for defects that rendered them unroadworthy, while 1 147 vehicles were impounded mainly for permit violations. “This progress gives us hope as we start the Easter peak travel period,” Creecy said on Saturday. “The success was made possible by intensified law enforcement in all provinces. A…
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Article | Crime | Fannie Masemola | gangs | Gauteng
Government deploys SANDF, SAPS in joint operation to tackle organised crime hotspots
South Africa’s security cluster has launched a coordinated national intervention aimed at stabilising crime-ridden areas, as police and the military intensify efforts to dismantle organised criminal networks operating across the country. Speaking during a media briefing on Sunday, Fannie Masemola, national commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), alongside Rudzani Maphwanya, chief of the…
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Crime is increasingly detected online but policing remains offline
South Africa is living through a policing paradox: many crimes are now first discovered online, yet local policing remains largely offline. Assaults, robberies, bullying, GBV incidents and public disorder increasingly surface on WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook and X before a case number is opened, before a patrol vehicle arrives and before any official reassurance is offered….