4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (612+ words) Busisiwe Nxedlana sleeps to avoid finishing the food she has been given. What is left has to last, because she does not know when more is coming. Nxedlana, a mother of two from Happy Valley in Cape Town, started feeling…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (241+ words) Two security guards are dead after cash-in-transit robbers attacked a Fidelity delivery truck at the gates of a royal palace. The truck was travelling from Nongoma towards Pongola on Monday, 7 September 2026. A group of armed suspects driving in different vehicles…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (620+ words) By Tulani Ngwenya for Oxpeckers For decades residents of eMbalenhle, a large township in Govan Mbeki Municipality in Mpumalanga, have lived and died in the plumes of Sasol’s Secunda plant. The plant also produces by‑products like ammonia, but it…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (298+ words) 247 learners with disabilities from three Limpopo special schools watched a movie built just for them. The Bridge of Hope programme hosted a movie day, screening Cinderella with subtitles, audio description and adapted visuals so deaf, autistic and physically disabled learners…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (170+ words) Listen to this article. Cabbage is meant to be one of the cheapest, most reliable vegetables on a tight shopping list. At some stores, shoppers are paying nearly double what it should cost. According to the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (924+ words) • Dr Jacob Modumoh was placed on precautionary suspension after claims of serious misconduct involving foot-and-mouth disease vaccine prices during the outbreak. • Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp says the state-owned vaccine company should not make excessive profits while farmers battle the country’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Jack Bloom has raised alarm over water shortages, sewage spills and pollution across Gauteng, after a series of inspections and community visits in August. In Ratanda, near Heidelberg, Bloom found a sewage spill that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (355+ words) Gaudencia Dube works full time as a debt collections agent in Johannesburg during the week, then spends her weekends running a nail studio out of her own home. The 37 year old, originally from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, has lived and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (504+ words) Every trip to buy groceries is getting more expensive for Yolanda Rakobela. But simply passing those increases on to her customers is not an option. Yolanda started Bites & Blessings in 2024 to earn extra money after people kept complimenting her cooking....