Employee cannot succeed in constructive dismissal claim because he anticipates that working conditions will become ...

With a backlog of 600,000 housing units and the state only providing 2,500 a year, there is a role for the private sector to ...

Ngoye said PRASA had terminated their employment because they had sought to uphold the rule of law and expose the abuse of power within the organisation. And yet, while the courts had found PRASA had ...

The government plans to spend about R292.8-billion on social grants in the 2026/27 financial year. This includes R36.9-billion allocated to the social relief of distress (SRD) grant for unemployed ...

Thanks to higher-than-expected revenue in 2025, a plan to increase income taxes to collect an extra R20-billion has been scrapped. And for the first time since 2024, income tax brackets and rebates ...

The City of Johannesburg’s revenue from water is R11.9-billion, but only R1.3 billion is allocated to Joburg Water for capital expenditure, Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana said on Wednesday.

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The Labour Court has dismissed a bid by former Heathfield High principal Wesley Neumann to be reinstated while an appeal by ...

Residents of rural Dannhauser Local Municipality say they struggle with prolonged water shortages. Communal taps frequently ...

Families in Doornbach settlement in Cape Town are still waiting for emergency housing, six weeks after the fire ...

Her main demand is an expanded Basic Income Grant (BIG) of at least R1,750 a month. The R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress grant, she said, was “an insult”. “It cannot even last a month,” she said ...

The Umzimvubu Local Municipality has already spent millions of rands on the project, but the site remains deserted and incomplete ...