The National Lotteries Commission will use its reserves to continue funding good causes if lottery ticket sales are suspended ...

South Africans voted in national elections, miners were trapped underground and homeless people were moved from the streets ...

We have previously reported that the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system is being defrauded. Here we explain how weak computer systems at the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), ...

The Kai !Garib Municipality says the Kakamas water treatment plant “may fail at any time”. Residents report frequent outages and say when the water comes out of their taps it often has red worms, ...

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Uncollected rubbish is piling up and rotting in containers and on the ground in Tsunami informal settlement in Delft, Cape Town. About 2,000 households have to live with the disgusting smell and the ...

A report by attorneys Dabishi Nthambeleni into a R27.3-million grant by the National Lotteries Commission to the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) for a minstrels museum has found no ...

Residents of Woodstock’s Bromwell Street, who have waged an eight year legal battle to stop them from being evicted from the houses they, and generations before them, have always called home, ...

Joe Schaffers was born in District Six in Cape Town in 1939 and lived there for nearly 30 years before his family and thousands of others were forced out in the 1960s under the Group Areas Act. On ...

The Physical Education Institute of South Africa received R17.6-million in Lottery funds between 2019 and 2021 to organise sporting events. The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) provided only a ...

The Vhembe District Municipality spent about R20-million on the Mashau Doli water project in 2019 to improve water supply to rural villages. But years after the project was completed, most households ...