Monday, 23 September 2019
Advocates for learners without birth certificates who have been barred from schools argue that the state is punishing them for circumstances beyond their control.
The Klipfontein Mission Station owned by the SA Methodist Church has mostly ignored complaints of families living in the area. But some local people remain loyal to the area of their birth.
A family still seeks restitution after the apartheid state forced them off their farm and the current government used the ground for the Blikkiesdorp “temporary relocation area”.
After another sombre week of femicide and funerals, a new study hopes to help guide the government in protecting vulnerable teenagers by understanding adolescent homicides in South Africa.
Though they battle to find good grazing land and water, impoverished farmers on small plots of land will not be deterred by government’s failure to follow up with promises of support.
A lack of municipal grazing land for the livestock of township-based Eastern Cape farms results in them straying into streets, becoming impounded and incurring heavy costs for their owners.
Control of the geostrategic province in the state of Jammu and Kashmir will give India access to energy resources while limiting the reach and ambitions of Pakistan and China.
Gauteng’s disaster management centre and a number of aid agencies are helping migrants affected by the xenophobic attacks in Katlehong to return to their home countries. But not everyone wants to go.
A government directive preventing departments from hiring or creating new posts is leaving them understaffed and overworked to the point that children aren’t being taught and people are dying.
The families of the two children who died at Dr CN Phatudi Hospital face a lengthy wait for answers from the provincial health department as they try to make sense of their childrens’ sudden deaths.
Zweli Ndaba is the chair of the Sisonke People’s Forum. He penned the flyer that spurred hostel dwellers and truck drivers to take part in the shutdown that led to xenophobic attacks in Gauteng.
Banks aren’t following procedure in selling the primary dwellings of people whose properties are in foreclosure. But changes to the rules could give some hope.
In northern KwaZulu-Natal, those with the congenital condition that affects their pigmentation are always fearful – and the police do little to protect them.
Residents of Thaba Nchu, in what was Bophuthatswana, live in unsafe houses with disputed title deeds while those in the old QwaQwa area face the scourge of unrelenting poverty.
After years of vulnerability, cover-ups and fear of losing their jobs, LanXess’ women miners are slowly speaking out about sexual harassment in the workplace and the effects on their mental health.
The brutal rape and murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana left South Africans reeling, but her name is only one in a long list of women and children killed by men.
Women’s voices reverberated in fury as protesters honoured those who have been raped and murdered in South Africa, and demanded that the government take better action against perpetrators.
A group of women banded together to protect migrants in their Coronationville street from an approaching violent mob, but they aren’t the only ones standing up for their neighbours.
The City of Cape Town has been fining people who live on the street and confiscating their belongings. But seven homeless residents, led by a woman tired of the inhumane treatment, are fighting back.
An accident at the Willowton Oil plant has poisoned the river, causing the death of a herder and livestock as well as fish, and depriving residents of their water source.
With communication lines down, residents can’t call ambulances or schedule operations. Now doctors are warning that critical medication is running low in the beleaguered territory.