The puzzles are computer generated. Sometimes an easy puzzle may be more difficult than it should be and vice-versa. There is exactly one solution to a puzzle. The puzzles published on Saturdays and ...

In May GroundUp reported how the six member family of 80-year-old Nothembinkosi Nontsasa had to live off her old age pension in two crumbling one-roomed mud houses in Flagstaff, Eastern Cape. Her ...

The continued demolition of shacks on a municipal sports field has led to a week of violent resistance and protests by Dunoon land occupiers. Last week on Tuesday a truck was set alight on Potsdam ...

To solve the crisis of violence against women we need to look to boys’ experience of childhood in South Africa. Behaviour disorders that lead to violence in later life are already present at the age ...

Three men implicated in apartheid-era crookery are at the centre of a case that will shed light on how much information the public can have access to. The South African History Archive (SAHA), which ...

The 33 African states that are members of the International Criminal Court should ask the court to probe reports of war crimes in Gaza, says the Southern African Litigation Centre. The Centre says ...

#UniteBehind held a public meeting on Saturday at the Central Methodist Mission Church on Greenmarket Square in Cape Town to prepare for mass mobilisation in support of the recall of President Jacob ...

A bad tempered, disrespectful law graduate is not fit and proper to be admitted as an attorney, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has ruled. Goane Jack Siamisang Montshiwa had insulted judges and ...

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Thabo Bester prison escape Here are our articles on the notorious prison escape on 3 May by convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester. See also this timeline published on 3 April.

This is a letter in response to Crucial patient information lost in Yeoville clinic robbery. Title of your letter: At least 5 and no more than 55 characters. Text of your letter: Blank lines separate ...

President Zuma and the ANC are very upset by Brett Murray's painting. The painting is on display in the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. It depicts the President as Lenin, which has not caused much ...