Alex Kolotla is building his own brick-and-mortar house on City of Cape Town land in Dunoon. He says he has been on the housing waiting list since 2006. Since 2000, no government houses have been ...

After a shack fire in 2022, Kolotla and about 40 others in the settlement started building brick-and-mortar houses. Kolotla’s house has three rooms. He designed it himself and laid the bricks by hand.

With the right approach, South Africa’s townships can be transformed into vibrant, functional and attractive communities. Making a township property attractive not only uplifts the area, it can also ...

Joburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille says the DA is aiming to win a majority vote, but says it is ‘rare and unrealistic’. Daily Maverick interviewed her on a city walkabout to assess real-life ...

Residents of Margibi County, particularly in Districts four and five, have praised Indian businessman Upjit Singh Sachdeva, popularly known as Mr. Jeety, for creating employment opportunities and ...

Mdoda can hold her luxury beliefs. She can mock, she can nitpick, she can complain about tone. None of it changes the brute reality: millions of South Africans live under collapsing governance, and ...

Members of the Whitesboro Historic Preservation Project are trying to help young people prepare for the future through a new carpentry apprenticeship program, based in Whitesboro, that will help ...

Haniff Hoosen, the DA's newly announced mayoral candidate for eThekwini, responds to criticism regarding his popularity and outlines his plans for infrastructure development and governance reforms.

The 379th Safe Haven Baby Box was dedicated Thursday, this one at the South Haven fire station on County Road 700 North.

Discover the significant places that shaped Nathi Mthethwa's life and career, from his early days in Durban to his final role as South Africa's ambassador to France.

The South African government last year began a unilateral push to categorize Taiwan’s representative office, officially named the Taipei Liaison Office in the Republic of South Africa, as a “trade ...

Discover why Johannesburg is Africa’s event and festival capital in 2025. Johannesburg has always been at the heart of South Africa. But right now, it is doing something bigger, it is claiming a title ...