From 2011 to 2023 the cost of living in South Africa has nearly doubled. This was revealed in the Trend in the Cost of Living in South Africa report, released on Friday, 16 May 2025. Electricity ...

An estimated 90% of South Africa’s rangelands are degraded.  In many of our communally managed rangelands, poor land and ...

PHOTOS: In South Africa, traditional healers join the fight against HIV. Stigma remains high in rural areas South Africa’s large younger population is a special concern.

The cost of living can vary widely not just from state to state but within individual states, which can make setting an appropriate minimum wage more difficult.

ANC fighting to retain 50% of vote Party support strongest in rural areas Youth fed up by lack of jobs, services Legacy of Mandela powerful for older voters QUNU, South Africa, May 23 (Reuters ...

Agincourt, the University of the Witwatersrand’s rural research centre 500km from Johannesburg, has documented the lives of 120,000 people over decades.

Videos of citizens complaining about the high cost of living have gone viral on social media. For over a month, the government had been stepping up police repression against workers and youth.

Starlink, the satellite internet branch of SpaceX says it is promising South Africa free high-speed internet to “thousands of rural schools” in the country if it can receive a license to ...

Traditional healers in South Africa's Bushbuckridge are trained to conduct HIV testing and counseling, aiming to increase testing rates and change attitudes.

Poor people with disabilities living in rural South Africa are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to accessing health care.

There’s an escalating dispute between President Trump and South Africa over a new land policy that he says discriminates against the country’s white minority. On Truth Social Friday, Trump ...

From the little girl who is strapped to her battered mother’s back, to the old woman who is living on a dwindling pension fund, women and girls in remote rural areas in South Africa seem to have been ...