Low-cost housing developer Gough Cooper Homes sold Soshanguve residents down the river when it built houses on the flood plain of the Soutpanspruit.
South African citizens living overseas will be given their first-ever chance to register abroad to vote in the upcoming national elections.
Humanity is barrelling towards an unrecognisable world. Natural systems will collapse and our civilisation will fail. But do we even care?
Bhutan shows us how to find a balance between development and a broader sense of wellbeing.
This year bought very little cheer, so the Mail & Guardian trawled far and wide to find two handfulls of news that brought a smile to our faces.
Crowds at Nelson Mandela’s memorial have poured out their emotions, singing and booing, to the point that Cyril Ramaphosa had to call for calm.
Road closures and public transport disruptions will mean residents of Soweto and greater Gauteng could struggle to get to work on Tuesday.
A Hare Krishna parade in Lenasia on Saturday night celebrated the life of Madiba — a man who learnt its holy book while on Robben Island.
Six decades after Madiba left Alexandra in Johannesburg, its residents are sad but have accepted the death of the man who used to dance among them.
A gold-mining village in Gauteng is turning into a ghost town as the mine shuts up shop.