Priscilla Jana made the world a better place
Two longtime colleagues and friends pay tribute to the renowned human rights lawyer, whose legacy is one of a fierce, compassionate and loyal fighter for justice for all.
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Italians demand state aid in second lockdown
Citizens fear restrictive measures without adequate financial support will leave them more impoverished as the government attempts to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections.
‘We sacrifice our families for Clover all year’
The strike at the dairy company continues, with exhausted workers demanding an end to compulsory weekend and public holiday work as well as overtime being forced on them.
Families want justice for Trojan Horse Massacre deaths
The families of those killed during the 1985 Trojan Horse Massacre are proposing the use of transitional justice to prosecute these apartheid police crimes, saying SA’s democratic government has let them down.
No end in sight to seven years of drought
Thousands of residents of a small Karoo town in the Eastern Cape draw their water from boreholes while emerging farmers have no water supply.
Magufuli bulldozes human rights in Tanzania
In the build-up to the Tanzanian general elections on 28 October, the president enforced restrictions on citizens, the media and opposition parties, all while belittling women and girls.
eSwatini needs to talk about illegal abortions
Because pregnancies can only be terminated legally in extreme instances such as rape, many women find other ways. And many do not survive the process.
Massacre rocks Nigeria’s #EndSARS protest
A dark day in Nigeria’s history has been christened Black Tuesday after soldiers and police officers opened fire on unarmed residents protesting against police brutality, killing more than a dozen people.
Public servant fired for absconding while off sick
Darren Sampson is one of a number of public servants with long-term illnesses who have been fired for absconding while ill instead of medically boarded.
Eastern Cape school’s infrastructure horror
For years, nothing has been done to improve the dire state of Inkqubela Primary, forcing parents to remove their children from what is supposed to be a safe centre of learning.
Violence continues in Nigeria despite SARS disbanding
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad may have been dissolved, but law enforcement violence continues. Soldiers have killed protesters in Lekki for defying the Lagos state’s curfew.
Reopening eSwatini’s controversial Ngwenya Mine
A licence to restart work at an iron ore opencast mine has been issued despite complaints of poor working conditions and dust and water pollution affecting the surrounding areas.
Gender and caste violence persist in India
There is an unprecedented rise in sexual violence against women from lower castes under Narendra Modi’s right-wing government, which has empowered the dominant upper caste groups.
Hit and run marks first day of Clover strike
A Clover worker died after being hit by a vehicle while allegedly running from police gunfire on day one of the nationwide strike for better wages at the giant dairy company.
Shack dwellers despair over latest fire in Jika Joe
Hundreds of residents are once again homeless after another fire swept through the Pietermaritzburg shack settlement, with the additional worry of contracting Covid-19 in temporary shelters.
Barloworld workers decry ‘unfair retrenchments’
The future of thousands of former employees and trainees looks decidedly bleak after they were retrenched in what they – and labour unions – say has been an opaque process.
CCMA’s attempt to restrain Socacof overturned
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has dropped its bid to deter a small activist organisation from aiding vulnerable workers in the security services sector.
Ratlou: A violent place for young girls
In the North West’s Ratlou Municipality teenage girls living in impoverished communities, without access to decent healthcare and proper policing, endure statutory rape and exploitation.
Together, unions put the government on notice
Four federations joined hands for the first time ever to raise a number of problems faced by both workers and the unemployed, as well as pressing social issues the government has not addressed.
Limitations of free speech argued in SA’s top court
The Constitutional Court recently heard arguments in the drawn-out legal battle that has followed in the wake of a reviled and homophobic article written by Jon Qwelane in 2008.
Migrant street traders worse off after lockdown
In Durban, migrant street traders struggling to recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic face municipal red tape and hostile policing.