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SA's energy needs and environmental protection square off in court

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FNB commits R1.5m in disaster-relief funding as NMB ramps up response

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FNB commits R1.5m in disaster-relief funding as NMB ramps up response

4 Jun 2026

Topco Media spearheads Environment Month with the 8th edition of ESG: The Future of Sustainability

Topco Media spearheads Environment Month with the 8th edition of ESG: The Future of Sustainability

Topco Media 3 Jun 2026

Dreams begin with slippers: Blu Label Media joins the Slipper Day movement

Dreams begin with slippers: Blu Label Media joins the Slipper Day movement

Blu Label Media 2 Jun 2026

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Sassa grant beneficiaries urged to switch to Black Cards before end August

29 May 2026

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Spar's new radio campaign wants to end period poverty by 2030

28 May 2026

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How Siv Ngesi’s MENstruation Foundation tackles period poverty

25 May 2026

WHO workers mobilised 4.7 tonnes of essential medical supplies and emergency kits to support the affected regions in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Image credit: World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Gates Foundation commits $15m to Ebola response as WHO suspects 900 cases

25 May 2026

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) African Regional Certification Commission declared South Africa polio-free in 2019. Image credit: , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

NICD detects 2 polio virus strains in Cape Town wastewater

22 May 2026

Seynabou Diop works at a station in a laboratory where the hantavirus genome was sequenced from the April 2026 outbreak, at Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. Image credit: Reuters/Ricci Shryock

Hantavirus in Africa: why climate change, rats and weak surveillance are worrying scientists

Wolfgang Preiser, Carla Mavian, Cheryl Baxter, Richard Lessells and Tulio de Oliveira 22 May 2026

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Sassa gets the bulk of social development budget allocation

21 May 2026

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The Starbucks Foundation awards FoodForward SA with $10k grant

20 May 2026

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How South Africans are showing up for Western Cape storm victims

19 May 2026

In 2025, KFC Add Hope open-sourced its entire child-feeding blueprint and invited Gen Z innovators to improve it. Image supplied.

How SA's young innovators help KFC Add Hope feed more children

15 May 2026

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Social development shake-up as Ramaphosa sacks minister

14 May 2026

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11 dead and 83,184 affected as Cape Town calls for urgent donations

13 May 2026

Two Portlands Primary School learners wade through the flooded Westpoort road on their way to school in Mitchells Plain on Monday morning. Photo: David Harrison

In photos: Cape storm wreaks havoc

GroundUp Staff 12 May 2026

Rocket Creative ignites a holistic future for Dis-Chem’s Million Comforts campaign

Rocket Creative ignites a holistic future for Dis-Chem’s Million Comforts campaign

Rocket Creative Design & Display 11 May 2026

Berenice Paulsen (left foreground) at the Bellville Sassa office in November 2025. We then that she had been trying for five months to help her sister Desiree Fredericks (right foreground), to get an Older Persons Grant. Archive photo: Marecia Damons

New Sassa system piloted in Bellville office

Marecia Damons 4 May 2026

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Sassa digitises 70% of records, steps up fraud interventions

30 Apr 2026

What kind of South Africa do we choose to be?

What kind of South Africa do we choose to be?

FOUR PAWS 24 Apr 2026

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SA women's football scores big as Glencore launches girls' league

24 Apr 2026

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Postbank ushers in Sassa black card era with final replacement drive

23 Apr 2026

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More than 40% of Capetonians face severe air pollution health risks

21 Apr 2026

East Coast Radio, LottoStar and Breadline Africa join forces to eradicate pit toilets in KZN schools

East Coast Radio, LottoStar and Breadline Africa join forces to eradicate pit toilets in KZN schools

East Coast Radio 21 Apr 2026

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Wits scientists design SA's first pollution alert app as Jozi battles coal emissions

20 Apr 2026

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Sassa acts swiftly against illegal selling of queue spots at offices

17 Apr 2026

There were long queues at the SASSA offices in Makhado last week as beneficiaries tried to find out what had happened to their grants. Photo: Thembi Siaga

Thousands of grants suspended after Sassa review process in Limpopo

Thembi Siaga 17 Apr 2026

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Government services continuing despite Mthatha fire, says Mabuyane

Lubabalo Ngcukana 16 Apr 2026

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Sip for a cause with the Kolisi Foundation's new campaign

14 Apr 2026

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