Sunday, 25 August 2019
With South Africa’s economic outlook still dire, the poorest suffer deprivation and injustice while trying to support family members and find jobs that simply aren’t available.
Lions once roamed Britain, Germany and North America. But now, other than a small population in India, they occur only in Africa and even here the long-term survival of wild lions is in jeopardy.
The army was brought in to help combat gang violence in the Cape Flats, but rather than bring calm it seems to have brought disappointment instead.
Legal experts have questioned the interdict granted to a group of Eastern Cape farmers, saying it unjustifiably limits the farm workers’ constitutional right to speak out against alleged poor treatment.
An almost 100% rejection rate at the Musina Refugee Reception Office means people fleeing violence are left stranded, neither able to earn money nor return home.
Publishers are citing tough financial circumstances as the reason for retrenchments, blaming the shift to online consumption of news. Instead of seeking new business models, journalists are being laid off.
The NPA continues to make excuses about why inquests into apartheid deaths have not moved forward. But the families of the dead are moving things forward.
Gang members in Hanover Park use the children leaving Blomvlei Primary after school as ‘shields’ to get closer to their rivals, and gunfire is common in the afternoons.
After a fire swept through a section of Masiphumelele township near Cape Town, razing homes and leaving residents without food or shelter, Sassa failed to respond despite being mandated to do so.
The majority of the more than 100 people killed in the province have been ANC members, but now witnesses, and even police officers, appear to be on hit lists.
Although the number of children crossing the border into South Africa on their own has dropped recently, there are still many unaccompanied minors at risk of becoming stateless.
A Durban mother of two is waging a Constitutional Court battle for the recognition of her family, but the Department of Home Affairs won’t hear of it.
The Sundays Valley farmers’ association has denied the accusations of abuse levelled by the local farm workers’ forum in the Eastern Cape, despite what workers say they have experienced.
Kashmir’s longstanding autonomy has been revoked in a move by the Hindu nationalist government feared to be a ploy to force a change in the Muslim-majority demographics of the area.
A group of men armed with crude weapons made their way through the inner city, breaking and looting, in the wake of police raids in which refugees and other migrants were rounded up and their goods confiscated at gun point.
People who left Sudan decades ago still believe in the future of their broken country, and want to return, even after a whole generation.
James Swart underwent surgery for a tumour he never had and died soon after. His family believe they were lied to about his condition and that the doctors were criminally negligent.
South African university graduates are willing to take menial jobs because of the dearth of suitable employment despite being highly educated.
Residents farming tracts of municipal land around Uitenhage are struggling with minimal equipment and water while the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality drags its feet on an urban agriculture policy that could help.
Corruption in the Free State human settlements department has left the coffers R500 million lighter, and a trail of half-built RDP houses and unfinished projects that were meant to benefit the poor.
Gender-based violence is escalating as the social crisis deepens. While researchers call for a practical intervention for men, some activists want a special council that could become a powerful platform for survivors.