No reprieve for dismissed Ekurhuleni casual workers
Three thousand expanded public works programme workers say that they were unfairly dismissed by the Ekurhuleni Metro municipality.
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Street traders claim xenophobic harassment in Ermelo
“When you see police or those Home Affairs officials, you just want to die.”
Stateless in South Africa
For the past 10 years, Khumbulani Ngubane has been stateless in the country of his birth. Now he’s challenging the department of Home Affairs over his status.
Residents go to court against anthracite mine
A court battle is underway between members of a community and an anthracite mine near Mtubatuba.
Tembisa land occupiers accuse police of brutality
City says it is committed to building houses on the land
PAC denies trading land for membership
The party is in talks with the municipality over a land occupation in Tembisa
Constitutional Court ruling on labour brokers a victory for the working poor
The long-awaited judgment of the Constitutional Court handed down on Thursday brought to an end an almost four-year-long legal battle on the correct interpretation of a section of the Labour Relations Act.
Abahlali baseMjondolo leader S’bu Zikode’s life is ‘in grave danger’
An attempt has been made on the life of Abahlali baseMjondolo president Zikode, according to a statement released by the shack dwellers’ movement on 7 July.
Dying for land and still overlooked – the other side of the coin
Why it is that the political killings of party members and councillors receive notable public attention, while the murders of activists in a large and sustained movement of impoverished people are often passed over in silence?
Court allows Durban evictees to return to their homes
On Monday 18 June, the Durban High Court granted an urgent order that allows households evicted from the Lamontville Transit Camp to
Residents of Durban transit camp evicted
Municipal officials evicted 48 families in Lamontville, in Durban, on Friday. The evictions appear to have been illegal.
Data costs stranglehold internet access for the poor
New regulations aimed at protecting mobile data consumers have been delayed due to a legal challenge from South Africa’s big mobile
FPB ‘overreaching’ on child porn
Concern is mounting about attempts to deal with child pornography as a media, rather than a criminal issue.
Enjoy the goals, remember the jails: A brief guide to Russia 2018
The World Cup is a welcome recess from the commodification of the Beautiful Game.
Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late
Residents say cooking accident started blaze.
Land Occupation by Abahlali Good Hope takes a political turn
Leader claims that the problem is that politicians see Abahlali as political which it is not, they do not understand them. “Members join voluntarily and the movement has no political affiliation.”
Metro police fire rubber bullets at residents in Ekurhuleni’s Good Hope settlement
Residents of the Good Hope settlement in Germiston have occupied vacant land on the border of Germiston and Boksburg, partly in response to lack of space at the existing settlement. On Thursday morning, Ekurhuleni Metro Police dispersed them with rubber bullets.
‘Without overtime there is no life’ – living on the impending R20 minimum wage
Research shows that millions of people working at the wrong end of South Africa’s deeply unequal wage structure are earning inadequate wages.
Overcrowding leads to Ekurhuleni land occupation
New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode.
When homes are built in the dark and demolished in daylight
Recently burnt veld crunches under foot. Beneath the ash, green shoots are beginning to reappear. But the grass is not the only new
The Scars of Labour: A Bitter Harvest in Harrismith
Harrismith workers’ assembly highlighted a countryside in deep crisis. Many at the meeting criticised what they believed to be collusions