Friday, 15 November 2019
Occupiers who moved into a former old age home in Observatory have been forced to live on the pavement outside the abandoned building. Now they’re waiting for the city to relocate them.
Speaking out against the military overthrow in the Latin American country, participants at the People’s Brics meeting in Brazil encouraged grassroots resistance to fight for democracy.
The Pretoria offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees were at the front line in a desperate struggle by refugees and asylum seekers for resettlement in safe countries.
South Africa’s health department has HIV prevention programmes but young women are still vulnerable to infection and HIV organisations have called for an emphasis on other prevention measures.
Mining companies and some heritage consultants don’t understand the sacredness attached to ancestral remains and the meaning of land in African communities.
Residents of Delhi and the surrounding area are struggling in severely bad air quality conditions, taking to social media to condemn the government’s poor handling of pollution year after year.
After fleeing persecution in Kenya and experiencing xenophobic violence in South Africa, television personality and LGBTQIA+ activist George Barasa hopes to build a life in Toronto.
“We are getting to a point where we will definitely see another strike soon”
After 580 days in solitary confinement, Brazil’s former president left jail and addressed crowds of supporters, vowing to oppose the country’s ultra-rightwing government.
Popcru used its ninth congress to tackle the issue of police and justice officials staying on in their portfolios despite failing to serve the needs of police and correctional service workers.
A policy change over travel documents required for internationally adopted children could result in foreign families shying away from adopting children from South Africa.
A long-standing grievance between the lecturers’ union, management and the student representative council of Eastcape Midlands College in Makhanda has boiled over, disrupting exams.
The SABC is looking to a digital future that is less reliant on the Digital Terrestrial Television network.
In the north of Syria, the Rojava revolution, a radical political movement focused on egalitarianism and based on anarchist principles, is facing a violent Turkish offensive.
Teenagers remain traumatised and fearful after xenophobia flared up in their schools and compromised their education.
The outgoing mayor’s tweet about the arrest statistics of migrants in Johannesburg over four years displays both his bigotry and a misunderstanding of how crime and policing work.
Hundreds of former mineworkers in the platinum belt around Rustenburg have been abandoned to disease and starvation. Now, Sibanye Stillwater is trying to evict them.
The East Rand shack settlement has seen an escalation in violent crime against women and children in the past several months as they deal with overcrowded living conditions and poor policing.
Twenty months after the president’s state of the nation address, which promised to eradicate unemployment, the crisis is now more severe than ever.
According to a recent colloquium on disrupting poverty, a decent standard of life is not only about earning the national minimum wage but also rests on service delivery and social networks.
The police physically removed refugees seeking to leave South Africa amid xenophobic attacks, carrying out a court order against the protesters camped outside the UNHCR office.