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| Oct 20, 2026 | Why a robotaxi would struggle to make money in Sandton | Tesla Cybercab
Vodacom and SmartOps Fleet want to put up to 55 000 vehicles on e-hailing platforms in the next nine to 12 months, 66% of them electric, Engineering News reported recently. That is about 36 000 electric vehicles in an industr... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Icasa’s R100-million surplus and its empty toolbox | Icasa left R333.7-million of its 2025/2026 budget unspent, including almost its entire capital budget, even as it told parliament that a lack of money is the main thing stopping it from buying the tools it needs to police operators.
The com... |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Malatsi can’t use telecoms rules to curb lawful gambling, lawyer warns | Communications minister Solly Malatsi cannot use telecommunications regulation to restrict access to legally authorised gambling, and any attempt to do so could face a court challenge, gambling attorney Wayne Lurie warned on Monday.
Lurie, ... |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Sars to pay Microsoft and IBM R2.75-billion in sole-source deals | The South African Revenue Service is investing heavily in artificial intelligence
The South African Revenue Service will pay Microsoft almost R1.6-billion over three years to renew its software licences and support, and IBM nearly R1.2-bill... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Why South Africa’s biggest drone isn’t flying for the country | Four years after Milkor earmarked five of its 380 drones for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), South Africa has still not bought one. The Cape Town-built aircraft is flying for a customer in the Middle East instead, Milkor s... |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Pothole bounty app wins Wits hackathon | Winning team, Buff Bytes, from left: Ndivho Shilling, Alton Maseko and Paballo John Bopape, all honours students in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
A platform that lets residents crowdfund repairs to potholes and ille... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | South Africa: Almost Every South Africa Home Now Has a Cellphone | But 740,000 households still have no phone
In 2002, nearly 55% of households in South Africa had no phones in their homes. By 2025, that number had dropped to 3.7% -- about 740,000 households.
Cellphone penetration has risen steeply. In 200... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Skills authority to probe MICT Seta leadership crisis | Higher education & training minister Buti Manamela
Higher education & training minister Buti Manamela has referred governance and leadership concerns at the Media, Information and Communication Technologies Sector Education and Trai... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | South Africa is losing its film industry – one delay at a time | Just a few years ago, the local film industry was booming. South African production was at record levels and getting global recognition. We were one of the world’s darling destinations for shooting foreign productions. Billions of rand came... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | DA presses ahead with proposal for South African Cyber Commission | The DA’s Glynnis Breytenbach
The DA is intensifying its efforts to create a Cyber Commission, with news on Tuesday that it has tabled a private members bill in parliament to this effect.
DA justice & constitutional development spokeswom... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Africa: Critical Minerals and Tech Dependency - a Key G20 Issue for Africa | As global powers and the tech industry compete for African minerals, the continent needs tech diplomats to negotiate fairer deals.
Thirty percent of the world's critical minerals come from Africa, and their access is a priority for Sou... |
| Dec 7, 2024 | SABC crisis: what’s next for South Africa’s troubled public broadcaster? | Here we are again. The long-running crisis at the SABC is back on the agenda after communications minister Solly Malatsi, withdrew the SABC Bill from parliament in mid-November to first develop a funding model for inclusion.
The broadcaster... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | Eskom’s monopoly is ending – here’s what happens next | South Africa endured an electricity crisis from 2008 characterised by intermittent rolling blackouts and a growing culture of non-payment. Eskom came to be regarded as the single largest risk to South Africa’s economy. At the end of March 2... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Ramaphosa is set to name a GNU Cabinet. What did Mandela’s look like in 1994? | Nelson Mandela and Cyril Ramaphosa check the time, on 20 January 1994, in Johannesburg, at the World Trade Centre, in Kempton Park. Image: Philip Littleton/AFP
Newly inaugurated President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to announce his new Cabinet f... |
| Apr 19, 2024 | South Africa’s grim legacy of load shedding | In 1994, apartheid ended and the ANC won South Africa’s first-ever democratic elections, promising “Electricity for All” as part of its Reconstruction and Development Programme.
Back then, only 36% of all South Africans had electricity in t... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | BREAKING NEWS: Mapisa-Nqakula hands herself over to police | Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Image: GCIS
Former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has handed herself over to the Lyttelton police station in Centurion, Tshwane and later, she is expected to appear at the Pretoria Magistrates Cou... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | BREAKING: Mapisa-Nqakula resigns as National Assembly speaker with arrest looming | Former defence minister and current National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Image
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has resigned as speaker of the National Assembly and member of Parliament, “effective immediately”.
After the ruling, Natio... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | AG uncovers R5.2 billion financial losses in SA municipalities | Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke says R5.2 billion has been wasted due to non-compliance and suspected fraud in municipalities. Image: SABC News
Over R5 billion has been wasted by South African municipalities during the 2021/2022 financial ... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | South Africa’s proposed new spying law is deeply flawed | In early 2021, the constitutional court found that the country’s State Security Agency, through its signals intelligence agency, the National Communication Centre, was conducting bulk interception of electronic signals unlawfully.
Bulk inte... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | South Africa’s new intelligence bill is open to abuse | When South Africa became a constitutional democracy in 1994, it replaced its apartheid-era intelligence apparatus with a new one aimed at serving the country’s new democratic dispensation. However, the regime of former president Jacob Zuma ... |
| Jan 8, 2024 | Mbalula sets the record on ANC defence on the Nkandla debacle | ANC SG Fikile Mbulala sets the record on his Nkandla remarks. Photo: Fikile Mbalula/ Facebook
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has come out to set the record straight about remarks he made in Mpumalanga on Sunday about the ANC’s involve... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | South Africa: Workers Are Battling to Collect Unemployment Benefits Despite New Technology | UIF App and phone-in system launched in September
Briefing Parliament in September last year, Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Commissioner Teboho Maruping promised a new app would make claiming from the fund much easier.
He said unemploym... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Alleged Parliament arsonist Zandile Mafe unfit to stand trial | Zandile Mafe in the Cape Town High Court on 8 June 2023. Image: Storm Simpson/The South African.
Zandile Mafe the man accused of burning South Africa’s Parliament in Cape Town has been declafred unfit to stand trial.
WHAT DOES THE CRIMINAL ... |
| Jul 18, 2023 | 12th official language in South Africa to be signed into law | President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday sign into law the South African Sign Language Bill during a ceremony at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
On 2 May, the national assembly approved that section 6 of the constitution be amended to i... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | INSIDE: Durban’s yearly Flash Floods, Extreme Thunderstorms | Flash floods that have wreaked havoc in Durban over the years. Photo: RUSA/ Facebook
Durban in KwaZulu-Natal has become synonymous with bad weather as flash floods and thunderstorms destruct the city year in and out.
The catastrophe also pr... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | Zandile Mafe remanded in prison hospital as defence weighs acceptance or dispute of mental health report | Zandile Mafe in the Cape Town High Court on 8 June 2023. Image: Storm Simpson/The South African.
A clean-cut Zandile Mafe returned to the Cape Town High Court on Thursday, 8 June, after an extended mental health assessment at the Fort Engla... |
| May 18, 2023 | Post Office has failed to pay into employees’ retirement fund for three years | The Post Office, which is facing liquidation, has not been paying over pension contributions in spite of a court order to do so. Photo: Alide Dasnois via Groundup
Article originally published on GroundUp By Steve Kretzmann
The court ruled i... |
| May 17, 2023 | WATCH: Eastern Cape hospital INFESTED with RATS | WATCH: Eastern Cape hospital INFESTED with RATS Photos: Video/Youtube/DailyMaverick
Shocking videos have emerged showing that an Eastern Cape hospital, more specifically the paediatric unit, is INFESTED with RATS.
ALSO READ: Four-year-old m... |
| Mar 7, 2023 | State Security Agency needs speedy reform – or it must be shut down | South Africa’s civilian intelligence service, the State Security Agency, is a broken institution. It is meant to provide intelligence to forewarn the country about national security threats.
Powerful individuals aligned to former President ... |
| Feb 18, 2023 | New land expropriation laws for SA approaching soon | New land expropriation laws for SA approaching soon Photos: Stock/Canva
The new land expropriation laws are approaching soon, and South Africans only have until 6 March 2023 to submit their views.
BUT WHAT DOES THE BILL SEEK TO DO?
Broadly,... |
| Feb 17, 2023 | New tobacco law – smokers could face jail time [WATCH] | Government wants to start sending smokers to jail with new tobacco law. Image: BBT
The country is set to see some major changes to tobacco, vape, and cannabis smoking this year with many new regulations down the line.
“The manner in which S... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | SASSA owes millions in outstanding municipal bills | SASSA told Parliament that at least 19 offices had outstanding rent bills, of which seven are in KwaZulu-Natal. SASSA told GroundUp that it has since paid the rents for most of these offices. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks via Groundup
Ori... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | SAYM: R27-million from Lottery but six years later rehab still not operational | A multimillion-rand grant to build a rehabilitation centre in Mpumalanga was approved just 18 days after the Southern African Youth Movement (SAYM) applied for National Lotteries Commission (NLC) funding: Photo: GroundUp
Originally publishe... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | How to impeach a president: Ramaphosa case tests new rules | President Cyril Ramaphosa has been in talks with South Africa’s ruling party as pressure mounted for him to quit or be forced from office. Image: Twitter/PresidencyZA
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa faces possible impeachment in th... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Violence Against Women Is Staggeringly High In South Africa – A Different Way Of Thinking About It Is Needed | Agitated women vent their anger and frustrations at a gender-based violence summit with government in November 2018. GCIS |
| Nov 25, 2022 | DigiSchool Helps Close SA’s Digital And Literacy Gaps | DigiSchool classroom |
| Nov 23, 2022 | Small-scale fishers facing marginalisation since apartheid | Small-scale fishers have long suffered discrimination in South Africa. Under the apartheid government’s segregation policies, many were forcibly removed from their homes and traditional fishing grounds. They were also unable to sell their c... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | South Africa Can Reduce Emissions And Create Jobs. A Tough Task, But Doable | South Africa’s Kusile coal-fired power plant is the fourth-largest coal plant in the world. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Haron family unimpressed with State’s ‘loose’ evidence after day one of inquest | The Inquest into Imam Haron’s death was reopened in the Cape Town High Court on Monday, 7 November. Image: Storm Simpson/The South African.
The inquest into the death of Imam Abdullah Haron was reopened on 7 November 2022, more than 52 year... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Multiparty Democracy Is In Trouble In South Africa – Collapsing Coalitions Are A Sure Sign | Mpho Phalatse was toppled as mayor of Johannesburg following a no-confidence vote in September. A high court reinstated her. Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Multiparty democracy in South Africa is in trouble | This isn’t the first time that the administration of a city has fallen apart due to coalition politics. Acrimonious scenes have played out across the country in metropoles such as Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane, large towns such as Knysna, ... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | R350-A-Month Grant Extended Until March 2024 | Members of civil society groups and unemployed people picketed outside the National Treasury in Pretoria on Tuesday demanding that the R350 grant be extended again. Photos: Chris Gilili |
| Oct 27, 2022 | GRANT extended: R350-a-month grant here until March 2024 | The Social Relief of Distress grant has been extended for a year. Archive photo of social grants queue: Mary-Anne Gontsana
By Liezl Human on GroundUp
Concerns surrounding this decline were raised by the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ).... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Legal sex work in South Africa ‘won’t create new problems’ | The reluctance to take bold action to decriminalise the sector has detrimental effects for sex workers. Decriminalisation would give sex workers access to labour rights and help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Photo: PE... |
| Oct 3, 2022 | More than 500 fraudulent ‘I Dos’ undone in 2022: Home Affairs | More than 500 fraudulent marriages were reversed since the start of the year. Image: Pixabay.
The Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, revealed that more than 500 fraudulent marriages have been reversed since 1 January 2022 in a repl... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | 97 parolees rearrested for rape and murder in first quarter of year | Minister Ronald Lamola said he is considering changes to the South African parole system. Photo: GCIS/ Flickr
Ronald Lamola revealed that more than 500 parolees committed serious offences in the first quarter of the financial year in an ans... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | New Copyright Bill Will Take South Africa Into The 21st Century At Last | The new Copyright Amendment Bill goes a long way to fixing omissions, imbalances, discrimination, restrictions, and unconstitutionality in the current copyright law. Photo: Brent Meersman |
| Aug 15, 2022 | SASSA to help R350 grant recipients ‘gain access to employment’ | [FILE] A backlog of R350 grant payments is causing a nightmare for SASSA – Photo: Twitter
Hundreds of thousands of R350 grant recipients were left in the lurch when the Department of Social Development (DSD) narrowed the eligibility criteri... |
| May 25, 2022 | Food insecurity in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic power house | Hunger in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic power house? What are the driving forces? Image: Adobe Stock
Food serves as one of the critical needs a person requires for daily survival. In South Africa it’s recognised as a fundamental human ri... |
| Apr 7, 2022 | South African state should not subsidise minibus taxi owners | South African state should not subsidise minibus taxi owners: Image: Adobe stock
Millions of South Africans rely on minibus taxis to get around. Without these vehicles, people wouldn’t be able to get to work, school or simply visit friends ... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Home affairs is hiring fit, capable, and 'highly patriotic individuals' to protect SA's borders | MUSINA, SOUTH AFRICA (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
South Africa's department of home affairs is looking to hire 200 "highly patriotic" personnel for the newly formed Border Management Authority.
But patriotism alone won&... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | The govt online licence payment site is down, the day after its big launch | On Thursday, the department of transport launched an online system to pay for driving and vehicle licenses.
On Friday it fell over.
Government websites, including that of the Presidency, have a bad record when it comes to staying online.
Th... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | SA residency applications reopen after a 22-month break – but don’t expect approval before 2025 | (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)
South Africa's department of home affairs reopened applications for permanent residency permits in January.
This, after abruptly suspending all new applications at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemi... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | TAKE A LOOK | Inside Cape Town’s newest members-only cannabis club | Cannibisters cannabis club in Cape Town (Photo: Luke Daniel / Business Insider South Africa)
South Africa’s cannabis industry has grown rapidly since the landmark Constitutional Court ruling in 2018 which decriminalised private and personal... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Top-5 Interesting Facts about South African Online Gambling | eGaming. Photo by Aidan Howe from Pexels |
| Jul 3, 2021 | SA’s tax on sugary drinks has brought in R8 billion – less than 1% is spent on health ‘promotion’ | (Getty Images)
The Health Promotion Levy has collected R7.9 billion since being implemented in 2018.
The tax aims to reduce obesity and diabetes in South Africa.
But all the money collected by the South African Revenue Service goes straight... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | 1,000 things can lead to your licence being suspended from next month – these are worst | (Photo by Gallo Images/Jacques Stander)
South Africa's new national demerit system for driving offences will be rolled out in phases starting on 1 July.
All motorists will start with zero points and receive demerits for approximately 1... |
| May 13, 2021 | Student accommodation in South Africa gets R150 million boost from the World Bank Group | (Getty Images)
Students studying at South African universities and colleges are struggling to find affordable accommodation.
The International Finance Corporation says that there is a shortfall of more than 500,000 beds and has invested R15... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | More than R100 million worth of fuel has been stolen from Transnet pipelines during lockdown | (Getty Images)
Transnet moves 16 billion litres of fuel through its 3,500km network of pipelines each year.
But almost 8.5 million litres of fuel, valued at R102 million, has been stolen from its pipes in the last year alone.
The embattled ... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Expropriation without compensation is coming - what you need to know
Here’s what will change
When will government be able to take land without paying for it?
How will the process work? | SA parliament (Gallo)
Parliament is currently hearing public comments on South Africa’s Expropriation Bill.
It will for the first time allow the expropriation of property without compensation.
But this can only happen in select circumstance... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | South Africa’s Electricity Supply: What’s Tripping The Switch | Electricity customers should brace themselves for steeper increases. shutterstock |
| Nov 26, 2020 | Here’s by how much the minimum wage – also for domestic workers - looks set to increase next year | The minimum wage for farm workers may be hiked to the same level as the national minimum wage as early as next year.
The National Minimum Wage Commission has recommended that the minimum wage be increased by inflation plus 1.5% next year.
I... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | SA exported armoured combat vehicles worth R881m in a year - here’s who's buying | Soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) walks in front of a South African-built Casspir. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Over the past year, South African defence companies exported armoured combat vehicles worth more ... |
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| Dec 16, 2019 | Making Sense of South Africa’s New Copyright Bill and US Trade Threats | Shutterstock
by Sean Flynn
The Office of the US Trade Representative has announced a review of South Africa’s eligibility for Generalised System of Preferences benefits. The office took the step after it was petitioned by the International ... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Making Sense of South Africa’s New Copyright Bill and US Trade Threats | Shutterstock |
| Aug 12, 2019 | The SA government is ready to transfer more than 100 plots of state-owned land in restitution – just as soon as the paperwork is done | (Alani Janeke)
The department of public works is ready to transfer 100 pieces of state-owned land to land claim recipients, its minister told Parliament, plus 20 pieces earmarked to build homes.
But public works can't transfer that lan... |
| Nov 24, 2017 | Copyright Holders Want ISPs to Police Pirate Sites and Issue Warnings | Online piracy is a worldwide phenomenon and increasingly it ends up on the desks of lawmakers everywhere.
Frustrated by the ever-evolving piracy landscape, copyright holders are calling on local authorities to help out.
This is also the cas... |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Over a year on, key reforms for SA’s R&D tax incentive still not implemented | More than a year on the Department of Science and Technology has yet to decide on whether to offer a refundable tax credit for the research and development (R&D) tax incentive.
The introduction of a refundable tax credit was one of sev... |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Over a year on, key reforms for SA’s R&D tax incentive still not implemented | More than a year on the Department of Science and Technology has yet to decide on whether to offer a refundable tax credit for the research and development (R&D) tax incentive.
The introduction of a refundable tax credit was one of seve... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Task team’s investigation into $445m Kapa Biosystems deal drags on | Months after setting up a task team to probe the $445-million sale of Kapa Biosystems, the Department of Science and Technology is still proceeding with investigations, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor’s office said today.
It f... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Task team’s investigation into $445m Kapa Biosystems deal drags on | Months after setting up a task team to probe the $445-million sale of Kapa Biosystems, the Department of Science and Technology is still proceeding with investigations, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor’s office said today.
It ... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | Does mobile data devour a quarter of South Africans’ income? | |
| Aug 30, 2016 | SA should use a more scientific approach to appoint its public protector | |
| Jun 2, 2016 | Internet freedom: why access is becoming a human right | |
| Oct 16, 2015 | SA cops may soon wear body cameras | |
| Oct 16, 2015 | SA mulls body-worn cameras for police | |
| Sep 10, 2015 | SA's border security system faces challenges | DHA minister Malusi Gigaba told Parliament the port of entry system is not integrated with the rest of the department's IT systems.
One of the main challenges for SA's ports of entry is that the Department of Home Affairs' (D... |
