More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade
In high school I used to be that guy who put together events such as the Valentine’s Day bash, as well as the teacher and learner awards. In university, a friend told me that I should start a PR company. She was like: “You’re good with PR.” And I was like: “Huh? What is that?” […]
Last week my helper’s daughter started grade 8 at a girls’ high school in Soweto. She told her mother years before going to high school that she wanted to attend a girls school because she did not want to deal with boys bullying her. But her first week at the girls’ school is not what […]
Our society remains carved up because differences are viewed as weaknesses
Landmark judgment paves the way for South Africans
to use legal system to hold councils responsible
On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives to pool their government subsidies and buy the 500-hectare Killcholoumkill farm, which the government had bought from a white commercial farmer for the purposes of land reform. Over the past 20 […]
The calendar is full of events that will keep holidaymakers entertained
Correcting offenders, while respecting their dignity, is vital to our constitutional democracy
If we are to make sense of the present and plan for the future we must understand our past, and so we must preserve our records
Crackdown follows trend of top officials allegedly looting millions
Coega SEZ is ready to welcome investors to its shores for gas opportunities
Volkswagen SA has turned to the courts to prevent former employees and the EFF from picketing at the Eastern Cape plant
People are living in some of the many schools that have been closed because of low enrolment numbers. Others are used as business premises
When outsourcing ended at Mandela University it gave contract workers more than just a job
The real crisis with water supply is that South Africa doesn’t know what it doesn’t know
The Eastern Cape government recently declared the province a drought disaster area. And as the climate crisis worsens, so does our mental health
Proudly South African trip took journalists to companies creating jobs – but they’re white-owned
Court is set to rule on the Makana council’s failure to fulfil its constitutional duties to town’s citizens
It’s not only stunning: There’s so much for tourists to do!
The Eastern Cape premier responds to two stories, which he says were inaccurate and unfair to him
A case at the Makhanda high court this week could be the only hope for those who don’t have birth certificates to attend school
Employees of the Expanded Public Works Programme have essentially become ‘permanent casuals’ who earn a pittance and have no job security
Aviwe Wellem was found by two boys on Saturday morning — raped and stabbed to death in her bed
Connect the people affected by problems so that they can pool information and tackle the causes
‘As individuals and a collective, let us do our bit in the building the Eastern Cape we want’
There may be no quick fix to making our hospitals safer, but there may be one simple place to start
Experts question an interdict granted to a group of farmers, saying it limits the farm workers’ right to speak out against alleged mistreatment
The tragedy of dispossession under colonial rule and apartheid continues under democracy
Oscar Mabuyane and Babalo Madikizela paid for a Bentley and renovations with suspect funds
According to StatsSA, the country’s labour force has decreased by 176 000 people between the first quarter of 2019 and the last quarter of 2018
The M&G returns to the Mayixhale household, in the Eastern Cape, for the fourth time since the 2004 elections
Issues of poor service delivery have reached boiling point in King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality in the Eastern Cape