Instead of wrongly accusing us of illegal hacking, SASSA should take urgent action to fix the extremely serious problems we ...

Parks Tau, the new minister responsible for the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), has revealed how the NLC engaged in ...

Crime involving firearms and extortion has prevented the municipality, Eskom and SASSA from providing essential services ...

Africa Energy Week (AEW) will be hosted in Cape Town from the 4 to 8 November, and boasts that it is “Africa’s biggest ...

SASSA has managed to get back about R150-million in Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments made to ineligible ...

See copyright notice on articles for terms. Most of our articles and photos are published under a Creative Commons license. GroundUp is a member of the Press Council and strives to abide by the Press ...

Across the country, potholes are an all too familiar and frustrating feature of South Africa’s roads. Archive photo: Barbara ...

Have a question you would like answered? Email us and we may answer it. The questions here are based on ones from our readers, with identifying information removed.

The Johannesburg High Court has delivered a significant judgment. It has declared unconstitutional the defence of “subjective consent” to a charge of rape. Judge Selby Baqwa said such a defence ...

Villagers in uMsinga north of Pietermaritzburg battle daily for water. Many get up in the small hours of the morning to queue at one of the very few borehole pumps. Some have stopped planting crops ...