Sassa gold cards will stop working on February 28, irrespective of the expiry date printed on the card.
The government has backed off and delayed the switch over of Sassa cards
Areas are without water for over a month, water deliveries via tanker are sporadic, and the eThekwini Municipality is running out of money to pay for diesel for ...
We need to know who was buying the gold, the methods used to transport it and who was complicit in facilitating these.
Our children are being given mobile devices at horrendously young ages without any instruction on their use, and are expected to use these without compromising themselves ...
The level of profligate spending required to reach R1 bn in a single year certainly calls for a detailed probe to determine who spent what, and who received what. ...
The numbers don't lie: far too many South Africans have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. The Department of Social Development says alcohol consumption contributes ...
Who can forget EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi calling out Maite Nkoana-Mashabane with his impassioned "She is sleeping in Parliament"?
Because gambling is so easily available online, it is consequently that easy to become addicted. But where access previously meant gambling addiction was an adult ...
The resignation of Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury should be just the start of making reparations for the horrific abuse perpetrated by John Smyth that ...
The cases of food poisoning after eating food bought from spaza shops around the country, including the deaths of six children in Soweto, is a matter of national ...
Given the effects of the July 2021 riots in terms of lives lost (about 350), businesses damaged and destroyed, jobs shed and damage to the economy estimated at R50 ...
The 30% pass mark is intended to ensure that the school conveyor belt continues pushing pupils forward and out of the system, making way for those coming from lower ...
The Independent on Saturday and other titles within the Independent Media stable remain committed to the principles of good, fair and responsible journalism despite ...
Several political parties, including some in the governing coalition, have promised to call for the NPA to review its decision, and to account for it before the ...
Julius Malema put on a brave face at the press conference announcing the departure of Floyd Shivambu to Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto Wesizwe, but both his tone and demeanour ...
While women are increasingly joining the police services in numbers, policing has historically been a masculine career, and masculine in a way which leaves no room ...
Any effort to attract pupils to the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects should be welcomed and encouraged, not spurned because of petty squabbling. ...
It may still be winter, but it’s time to start readying your garden for spring. We have all the planning and preparation for you on Page 7, plus tips to make the ...
Controversy is never far from the Games, and there had already been plenty even ahead of the opening.
President Cyril Ramaphosa made all the right noises in his speech at the opening of Parliament.
Top of his list of priorities has got to be addressing the shortcomings in the SA Police Service, including poor training, a lack of the equipment needed to fight ...
While good South African medical staff have always readily found lucrative work in the Middle East, the UK, New Zealand and Australia, Canada now seems to have joined ...
While the men and women fighting to rule the country squabble over who gets which ministry, 11 men will be fighting this afternoon for the nation’s pride in the ...
The days of ignoring or under-estimating the threat of cyber crime ‒ as individuals or businesses ‒ are over.