Minister abandons commuters on train
After severe delays on Metrorail, transport minister Fikile Mbalula went back to his sirens and “blue light brigade”.
By: Ashraf Hendricks
27 Jun 2019
27 Jun 2019
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‘I am a prisoner in my own home’
Sibusiso Zondi has been trapped in his eighth storey flat for nine years because he is a wheelchair user and the lift is broken. His mother’s protest has led to eviction.
By: Amanda Khoza
26 Jun 2019
26 Jun 2019
Workers sacrifice basic needs hoping for R230 a day
As the strike at Oak Valley Farm drags on, workers face either total ruin as their families begin to starve or long-term destitution if they give in and take the lower wage offer.
By: Ra’eesa Pather
25 Jun 2019
25 Jun 2019
Durban, the city that forces the poor to defecate in the streets
Contemptuous municipal attitudes have compromised public sanitation in the heavily trafficked hubs of Durban forcing people into undignified, unhealthy and dangerous situations.
By: Greg Ardé
24 Jun 2019
24 Jun 2019
Eastern Cape activists accuse police of excessive force
Residents fed up by the lack of jobs and services have accused the police of using excessive force against them and allowing local businesspeople to use the SAPS to settle factional ANC battles.
By: Selloane Khalane
24 Jun 2019
24 Jun 2019
Bonteheuwel reclaims Youth Day for its forgotten heroes
Residents of the gang-ridden Cape Town suburb are drawing together, forming committees and holding sports tournaments to move towards a better future while honouring the past.
By: Ra’eesa Pather
21 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019
Why Pakistan is taking Pashtun activism seriously
As Pashtun communities fight for greater freedom of movement and against discrimination, the Pakistan military worries that dissent will turn to violence, further destablising the region.
By: Haris Zargar
21 Jun 2019
21 Jun 2019
Municipal union battles for recognition and workplace access
A newly formed municipal union, which split from the allegedly corrupt South African Municipal Workers Union, has been barred from accessing workplaces to advocate for workers.
By: Anna Majavu
19 Jun 2019
19 Jun 2019
Tongaat Hulett workers pay the price
The sugar giant’s profits have fallen and retrenchments are imminent. The crisis will affect not only 5 000 employees but also small-scale growers who depend on the milling firm for their livelihoods.
By: Magnificent Mndebele
18 Jun 2019
18 Jun 2019
The forgotten massacre of 18 June 1976
School students changed the course of history when they took to the streets of Soweto on 16 June 1976. What happened to their classmates in Alexandra two days later is a lost story.
By: Dennis Webster
14 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019
New ways to fight HIV
A major South African HIV vaccine study could provide vital new information in the search to find a cure for a disease affecting just under two million people a year.
By: Tebadi Mmotla
14 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019
Sport as resistance in Kashmir
Though under Indian rule, Kashmiris will almost certainly rally behind archrivals Pakistan in the World Cup clash on Sunday as a form of political defiance.
By: Haris Zargar
14 Jun 2019
14 Jun 2019
Former NPA head tells Zondo of dirty tricks campaigns
Bigwigs in the prosecuting authority played their part in Zuma’s godly game by destabilising the NPA and ensuring the prosecution of people considered enemies of the former president’s regime.
By: Niren Tolsi
13 Jun 2019
13 Jun 2019
Activists unite to fight corporate SLAPP suits
Legal suits designed to drain the resources of citizens and rights groups, known as strategic litigation against public participation, work to silence those most affected by big business.
By: Tony Carnie
10 Jun 2019
10 Jun 2019
The protesting workers who grow Woolworths’ flowers
Oak Valley farm workers are weary of low wages for hard work and racially discriminating housing, leading to a protest deadlock that now has the union calling on big retailers to boycott the farm.
By: Ra’eesa Pather
7 Jun 2019
7 Jun 2019
Kellogg’s, a tale of two cereals
Company executives fed Corn Flakes to primary school children in Gauteng on World Hunger Day. But nearby, a former Kellogg’s worker couldn’t bear to look at the cereal it produces.
By: Dennis Webster
7 Jun 2019
7 Jun 2019
Timol ruling raises hopes and poses more questions
A precedent-setting judgment has given hope to the families of those murdered by the apartheid regime, but also prompted others to call for liberation movement activists to be prosecuted.
By: Ra’eesa Pather
6 Jun 2019
6 Jun 2019
A gay Kenyan’s asylum struggle in South Africa
George Barasa faces arrest and prosecution in his home country, simply for being gay, and gaining asylum in South Africa from homophobic and inept home affairs officials is proving difficult.
By: Jan Bornman
6 Jun 2019
6 Jun 2019
High Court rules against South Africa’s largest trophy-hunting farm
A judge lambasted game farmer Arthur Rudman for alleging he was threatened by former workers. But with the farm’s empowerment scheme being liquidated, the fight is only beginning.
By: Dennis Webster
5 Jun 2019
5 Jun 2019
Should learners have to choose between sanitary pads and school?
The National Sanitary Dignity Implementation Framework aims to provide pads free in no-fee schools. Ambitiously, its long-term goal is to distribute to all girls in all schools.
By: Zandile Bangani
4 Jun 2019
4 Jun 2019
Critically ill Ethiopian refugee fights for treatment
When the laws of the land collide with the Hippocratic Oath, which wins? A state hospital says that a ‘foreign national’ does not qualify for care despite her life-threatening condition.
By: Jan Bornman
3 Jun 2019
3 Jun 2019