Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Chocolate factory workers say employment contracts without guaranteed working hours have had devastating consequences for their lives. Now, they’re fighting back.
A coalition of workers and worker rights groups wants the discriminatory tier system scrapped as some earn less than the national minimum wage, which is already insufficient as a living wage.
On the ‘close comrades’ list, it was only a matter of time before the apartheid police arrested and interrogated Neil Aggett, and his partner Liz Floyd. She is still fighting for justice for Aggett.
The anti-apartheid activist told his mother and sister during a supervised visit at John Vorster Square that he expected to be held only for six months. A week later, he was dead.
Judge MA Makume has inspected the cellblock at John Vorster Square in which anti-apartheid activist Neil Aggett died. His family watched as his apparent suicide was reenacted.
If a player can be found, a tape recording at the reopened inquest may reveal new information about the anti-apartheid activist’s death at the notorious John Vorster Square police station in 1982.
Nelson Mandela Bay steel workers are fighting their dismissal and trying to find out what happened to their unemployment and pension fund contributions, which have gone missing.
For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
The few days of rain have done little to alleviate drought in the Eastern Cape, leaving emerging farmers with starving livestock and withered crops as some wait for promised government aid.
Impoverished residents have sought legal advice after the Witzenberg Municipality withdrew indigent subsidies for those who refused to allow it to install water management devices.
The funeral of a trangender woman brought together churches and the LGBTQIA+ community, reminding those left behind that even after violent death, unity and hope live on.
Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch tracks aid efforts to ensure they are oriented towards the needs of the people and that aid is not used to undermine Haitians’ right to self-determination.
The Department of Home Affairs has limited work and study options for refugees and asylum seekers, and discouraged political activity. Activists and experts say this is unconstitutional.
For the first time in South Africa, a court has ordered the dissolution of a municipal council for failing in its constitutional duty to provide services to residents.
The right of private citizens to choose who inherits their wealth comes under constitutional scrutiny with two cases of inequality in wills. It could change the face of South African inheritance laws.
A Kashmiri journalist in occupied territory asks: Is this the start of settler-colonialism in Kashmir? Are we the final generation to see Kashmir in its current form? Is this the start of our Nakba?
Khayelitsha bus and train services are still suspended, forcing commuters to take expensive taxis to get to and from work.
Despairing of help from the ruling party on the eve of its 108th birthday celebrations, Platfontein residents have called for the president to implement the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act.
The Modi government’s ‘reign of terror’ is aimed at silencing Muslims into submission on the path to a nation ruled by a far right-wing version of Hinduism. But it could have irreversible consequences.
What is the point of being alive if you do not want to make the world a better place?
A successful land restitution project in the Eastern Cape is being hampered by government’s failure to provide basic services for the family working and living there.