5+ day, 2+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ 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, 5+ 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   (139+ words) The retailer says the issue was picked up during its own quality checks, which led to further testing. That testing found Pluralibacter gergoviae, a type of bacteria sometimes found in wet manufacturing environments. Woolworths says the risk to healthy people…...

1+ week, 6+ 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....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (133+ words) Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt Swimming South Africa president Alan Fritz and CEO Shaun Adriaanse have been provisionally suspended over possible integrity code violations. The Aquatics Integrity Unit announced the suspensions on Monday. It said the action relates to “potential violations…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (336+ words) Thembisa Skaap runs a full autism centre in Khayelitsha on nothing but school fees. No government money comes in. She built it after she could not find a place for her own grandson. Skaap searched across the Western Cape for…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (919+ words) A young nurse who once struggled to find her own path is determined to make sure children in her rural Limpopo village do not face the same journey alone. At just 26, Ciliciah Chagane is a qualified nurse, poet, pageant queen…...