Violence follows gay asylum seeker
Despite South Africa’s progressive and protective Constitution, some gay asylum seekers feel no safer here than in the countries from which they are fleeing.
By: Jan Bornman
6 Jan 2020
6 Jan 2020
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For Michael Komape’s family, justice at last
The Supreme Court of Appeal awarded the family of the five-year-old almost R1.5 million for the “appalling and undignified death” Komape suffered by drowning in a pit latrine at school.
By: Tania Broughton
19 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019
Not coming home for Christmas
A hundred recyclers were displaced by floods in Centurion, which not only killed at least one person and destroyed homes, but also wiped out the waste pickers’ hard-earned savings.
By: Nation Nyoka
19 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019
Farmworker faces eviction after being fired
Endulini citrus farm in the Eastern Cape is unwilling to hear the situation of some of its workers regarding adequate accommodation.
By: Anna Majavu
19 Dec 2019
19 Dec 2019
India polarised by Modi’s anti-Muslim citizenship law
The religion-based citizenship laws imposed by the Hindu nationalist government has evoked comparisons with Adolf Hitler’s Nuremberg decree excluding people on the grounds of religion.
By: Haris Zargar
18 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019
Undocumented children win right to basic education
In a monumental ruling at the Makhanda high court, judges found it was unconstitutional to bar learners without birth certificates from receiving basic schooling.
By: Tania Broughton
18 Dec 2019
18 Dec 2019
North West mine shoots unpaid workers
Horizon Chrome Mine failed to pay salaries for November and when the mineworkers mobilised to protest, mine security guards shot them with rubber bullets and the police arrested them.
By: Magnificent Mndebele
17 Dec 2019
17 Dec 2019
India’s pervasive culture of rape
A spate of brutal rape cases has reignited public anger over violence against women. But without an adjustment in attitude towards caste and class, little will change.
By: Haris Zargar
12 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019
Can government funding stop rape?
The president has promised R1.6 billion to fight gender-based violence in South Africa. But can money help when the problem is rooted so deeply in patriarchy, police indifference and religion?
By: Selloane Khalane
12 Dec 2019
12 Dec 2019
Shack fire a chance for government to step up
Local government has assured the 164 shack dwellers who lost homes in a Pietermaritzburg fire that they don’t want them rebuilding on the floodplain and will ‘make a plan’. Time will tell.
By: Amanda Khoza
11 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019
New era for Methodist Church with women in top roles
Bishop Purity Malinga is the first woman to be appointed presiding bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern African in more than 200 years.
By: Dion Forster
11 Dec 2019
11 Dec 2019
How Lindela became Bosasa’s meal ticket
The notorious ‘repatriation centre’ was an ‘income stream’ for Bosasa for decades as it worked the system – and the home affairs department – to maximise profits.
By: Jan Bornman
9 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019
Zimbabwean court upholds transgender rights
Transgender activist Ricky Nathanson, who sought asylum in the United States after being brutalised by the Zimbabwean police, may have won her damages claim but she cannot return home.
By: Tania Broughton
9 Dec 2019
9 Dec 2019
Dramatic turn in anti-Chinese hate speech case
Amid Judge Motsamai Makume declining to admit certain evidence into the record, the legal representative of one of the accused asked the judge to recuse himself, citing allegations of bias.
By: Musawenkosi Cabe
6 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019
The Zondo commission’s dapper dodger
Fana ‘Styles’ Hlongwane may not like having his picture taken but this smooth operator does appear to like blue, as was evident at his reluctant appearance before the inquiry into state capture.
By: Niren Tolsi
6 Dec 2019
6 Dec 2019
Angels feed learners before matric exams
What started as an idea to spoil her son with breakfast has led to a Cape Town mother opening her heart, pockets and house to matric pupils, serving them meals during exam time.
By: Michael Nkalane
5 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019
Motherwell: Serial rapist or pervasive gender-based violence?
Three bodies found in the Port Elizabeth township have prompted claims of a serial rapist or killer, but the police say this is not the case, leading to heightened concern about ongoing violence against women.
By: Sibongile Portia Jonas
5 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019
Eastern Cape water crisis nears catastrophe
Angry residents and activists from the ‘disaster area’ of the Eastern Cape are pointing fingers at government mismanagement and misinformation concerning the water shortage.
By: Anna Majavu
5 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019
The AIDS years
There was a time when family and neighbours were falling fast, the need for graves outpacing the available space. But antiretrovirals have improved and the stigma of HIV has lessened.
By: Cebelihle Mbuyisa
4 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019
Shopping malls are ‘killing’ independent retailers
The Competition Commission’s Grocery Retail Inquiry has found national supermarket chains are putting small, independent players out of business – and wants to put a stop to it.
By: Lloyd Gedye
4 Dec 2019
4 Dec 2019
Millennials living positively with HIV
HIV and AIDS remains the biggest conundrum in South Africa, but young people living with the virus have made it their mission to spread awareness and fight the existing stigma.
By: Tebadi Mmotla
2 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019