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Environmental groups are litigating against the government and a fishing industry group because of concerns over the survival of the African Penguin. The legal dispute concerns the closure of fishing ...

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Eric van Rooy is 69. He grew up in the little town of Wupperthal in the Western Cape, and has lived there most of his life. He worked in the old glove factory for a while before it closed down. Now, ...

Our article on the failures of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system has unfortunately been met with a very defensive response from SASSA.

Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture ...

Under its previous administration, the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) spent at least R1-million on lawyers to try to stop or counter GroundUp’s reportage exposing corruption at the NLC.

City Power teams removed about 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at approximately R6-million from Kanana informal ...

The council and its disciplinary committee not only failed to act in the public interest but also contributed to injustice, ...

The government has not investigated the collapse of the once state-of-the-art government-funded Mantusini Dairy Farm near Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape. The multi-million-rand dairy farm was set ...

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the population of both black and white rhinos has stabilised and even increased slightly since 2021. The white rhino population is estimated to have ...