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  • Report on George building collapse finds engineer ‘incompetent’ – police preparing charges

    The five-story building under construction in George collapsed, leaving 34 workers dead and 28 critically injured.

  • Cosatu demands crackdown on UIF looting and inefficiency

    Siyanda-Bakgatla did not qualify for the scheme but the UIF granted the platinum mine more than R800-million in Ters benefits.

  • Business, not bloodshed − Western Cape taxi summit urges regulation of industry

    Western Cape taxi summit urges industry reform, regulation to end ongoing violence and corruption.

  • Khayelitsha residents slam Shoprite for ignoring local labour and business

    Protesters were outside the Site C shopping centre on Wednesday and Friday this week.

  • Survivors of George building collapse demand justice as report blames engineer, developer and contractor

    Many red flags were ignored before the collapse of the building in George.

Report on George building collapse finds engineer ‘incompetent’ – police preparing charges

8th August 2025 0

The five-story building under construction in George collapsed, leaving 34 workers dead and 28 critically injured.

Cosatu demands crackdown on UIF looting and inefficiency

8th August 2025 0

Siyanda-Bakgatla did not qualify for the scheme but the UIF granted the platinum mine more than R800-million in Ters benefits.

Business, not bloodshed − Western Cape taxi summit urges regulation of industry

4th August 2025 0

Western Cape taxi summit urges industry reform, regulation to end ongoing violence and corruption.

Khayelitsha residents slam Shoprite for ignoring local labour and business

1st August 2025 0

Protesters were outside the Site C shopping centre on Wednesday and Friday this week.

Survivors of George building collapse demand justice as report blames engineer, developer and contractor

21st July 2025 0

Many red flags were ignored before the collapse of the building in George.

Labour

Report on George building collapse finds engineer ‘incompetent’ – police preparing charges

8th August 2025 0

Cosatu demands crackdown on UIF looting and inefficiency

8th August 2025 0

Khayelitsha residents slam Shoprite for ignoring local labour and business

1st August 2025 0

Survivors of George building collapse demand justice as report blames engineer, developer and contractor

21st July 2025 0

Domestic workers demand end to abuse on International Domestic Workers’ Day

17th June 2025 0

Education

Teen suicides raise alarm over mental health crisis

15th July 2025 0

‘No 10-year-old should be a mother’: Eastern Cape’s child pregnancy crisis

20th June 2025 0

Once proud Vuwani boarding school now a squalid shame

3rd June 2025 0

Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future

13th April 2025 0

Rage over rape of seven-year-old ‘Cwecwe’ in Matatiele

4th April 2025 0

Service delivery

SA’s insecurity cluster of overburdened detectives, ineffective courts and overcrowded prisons

7th July 2025 0

Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners

19th June 2025 0

Cape Town’s central line reopens

29th May 2025 0

Protest leaders arrested as tensions grow in Covid Village

27th May 2025 0

Shack dwellers from Khayelitsha protest in Cape Town

24th April 2025 0
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