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Cliffhanger:  Buildings, roads and cars were destroyed as floods damage infrastructure across the eThekwini region in KwaZulu-Natal during April’s downpour in 2022 Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

Polluters could pay for deadly KZN flooding

South African law might be used to hold major carbon polluters to account for their role in damaging climate events This content is restricted to registered users and…

Charles Lessingh lies on the bed in his lounge in Welkom next to his wife Elsa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Stress, tears and struggles with Tshiamiso Trust

Trust had paid out more than R700m but too many claimants ‘are being misdiagnosed, incorrectly classified or rejected’, say activists

Thobile Mpumza was shot dead in Marikana in 2012. The family is fighting for compensation as Thobile was their breadwinner.

Finding justice 10 years after the Marikana massacre

The family of one of the victims of the shooting has received neither money nor an apology

Stripped: Families say they were not compensated or inadequately compensated by Nkomati mine, which is 45km west of Barberton and 35km east of Machadodorp

Motsepe’s mine in reparation row

For 13 years, the former residents have battled with Nkomati mine over the relocation of graves and the destruction of cattle kraals and homesteads

Yay for SA’s child health policies

Constitutional Court to rule on leave to appeal in Tembisa Hospital cerebral palsy case

Lawyers representing Tembisa Hospital say there is nothing staff could have done to avoid newborn’s brain damage.

How South Africa’s Covid vaccine injury fund will work

In the rare event that you experience a severe side-effect as a result of Covid-19 vaccines, this fund will pay you out

Engen refuses to engage with Durban’s blast affected community

Years of poor maintenance at Engen’s Durban plant caused pollution and December explosion