Inside the Johannesburg Master’s office on 17 August. Archive photo: Seth Thorne Justice minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said a long-running digitisation project has contributed to service disruptions and delays at the Masters’ offices across the country. The SIU will investigate whether Veritas Engineering and Project Management Consultants (Pty) Ltd, which was paid R415-million between 2022/23 and […]
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28 years after the first deadline to lodge land claims, 5,160 claims still need to be finalised. Between 2014 and 2016, a new window to lodge claims was opened. But the Constitutional Court ruled that all the “old order” claims lodged by December 1998 must be finalised before “new order” claims can be assessed. At […]
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The inpatient unit at St Luke’s Combined Hospices in Kenilworth closed nearly two years ago. The organisation concluded it was unsustainable. But former staff and volunteers argue it needs to be reopened. Photos supplied St Luke’s has been providing care to very ill and dying people in Cape Town since 1980. In December 2024 its […]
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African Penguins crossing a weighbridge on Bird Island in Algoa Bay. The weighbridge records the weight and direction of the birds and forms part of a larger Automated Penguin Monitoring System at breeding colonies to track this critically endangered species. Photo: Eleanor Weideman Conservationists are concerned that a mass sardine die-off, possibly from the pilchard […]
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Informal homes erected on Transnet land in Woodstock, Cape Town. Some say they have been living on the site for more than a decade. Photos: Matthew Hirsch Last month the court ordered the eviction of more than 160 people living on ten Transnet-owned properties in Woodstock and Salt River by 30 September. The court accepted […]
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Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village, Limpopo, is crumbling. The school was built nearly 40 years ago. The community has asked the education department to step in to help. Photo: Thembi Siaga “We feel abandoned. We are afraid our classrooms will collapse on us,” a grade 9 learner at Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village, […]
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Some judges expressed alarm when they were provided plane ticket options for R8,500 and R9,195 for a Johannesburg–Durban roundtrip that normally costs about R3,000. Illustration: Lisa Nelson A conference of the judiciary took place in Umhlanga, Durban from 13 to 16 July. The conference was organised by the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) and […]
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Naboth Madoro is one of several hundred people who live in Wembley Stadium, a space demarcated by the City of Johannesburg as temporary housing for people who were evicted or lost their homes in fires. Photos: James Oatway Hundreds of people are living in Temporary Emergency Accommodation in squalid conditions across Johannesburg. About 350 people […]
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A soldier during a joint oversight visit by the police and defence portfolio committees in Mitchells Plain on 14 August. The purpose of the visit was to monitor the progress of the Operation Prosper army deployment in Cape Town. Photos: Matthew Hirsch Cape Town mothers who have lost sons to gang violence said they had […]
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During a mass meeting on Wednesday, Cape Peninsula University of Technology student leaders told students not to vacate their residences. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks On Tuesday, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology told students to leave their residences within 24 hours. This followed days of protest, which included incidents of violence and destruction of property. But […]
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