WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT Dry tap reality: The growing water infrastructure crisis in SA 9 min 5 By Lerato Mutsila, Naledi Mashishi, Riaan Marais, Suné Payne and Tony Carnie
POST-MINE PLANS Anglo leans on Kumba to reinforce foundations of a just transition 4 min 1 By Lindsey Schutters
STATE OF OUR BEACHES Blue skies, clean seas: most SA beaches are ready for the summer rush, but some are not easy to gauge 19 min 0 By Kiara Wales, Reid Donson, Hannah Abrahams, Tamsin Metelerkamp, Tony Carnie, Riaan Marais and Kyran Blaauw
NOVEMBER BY-ELECTIONS Ward poll beatdown — ANC loses seats to MK, PA and independent candidate as it bleeds support 18 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
SEPTEMBER BY-ELECTIONS ANC overwhelms, SACP underwhelms in Limpopo ward tussle, DA snatches back Northern Cape seat 6 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
BOOK EXCERPT Astral manoeuvres in the dark — magical stargazing in the Northern Cape 5 min 1 By Chris Marais
MUNICIPAL POLITICS Small parties, big stakes – local governance failures set the stage for 2026 8 min 9 By Victoria O’Regan
BIOCRIME How illegal harvesting of vulnerable plants and animals strips the Cape’s ecology 7 min 2 By Julia Evans
HEALTH DRIVE PinkDrive's innovative campaign aims to screen 12,000 people and educate communities on cancer 4 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
WEATHER WATCH Cold, wet and windy conditions to hit Western and Northern Cape from Monday 4 min 0 By Julia Evans
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Health ombud probe finds patients ‘froze to death’ in Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital 6 min 5 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
AIR POLLUTION WMO report reveals urgent need for action against rising dust storms in Southern Africa 7 min 1 By Kristin Engel
ECOLOGICAL HEIST Conviction reveals criminal syndicates’ shifting focus in illegal plant trade 7 min 1 By Kristin Engel
DIGGING IN DRYLANDS Drylands under siege as farming communities fight to protect what cannot be replaced 10 min 0 By Kristin Engel
QUIET REVOLUTION South Africa’s Drylands are being transformed through community-led conservation 9 min 1 By Kristin Engel
MAY BY-ELECTIONS Historic win — Patriotic Alliance takes Sutherland ward off ANC in tight Northern Cape contest 9 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
MAY BY-ELECTIONS Shifting political landscape: ANC holds steady in Gauteng’s Ward 24 after by-election 8 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
MOUNTAINS & MINES Mining, succulent poaching and drought push species to the brink in the Richtersveld 8 min 3 By Kristin Engel
BOOK EXCERPT Upington Tales III: Flood season on the Orange, water gawkers and the Kalahari guy who saves them from drowning 7 min 2 By Chris Marais
MOUNTAINS & MINES Diamonds the Richtersveld’s worst friend as infighting and illegal mining tears community apart 10 min 4 By Kristin Engel
