The indignity of life without water
Residents say it’s ‘inhumane’ to function without water as it strips people of their dignity and makes life much harder during a global pandemic.
Stories by: Halden Krog
Pop-up cinema educates and entertains children
Buhle Sithela started his cinema project with his earnings from washing bins, giving township children a free cinema experience they would ordinarily not be able to afford without his intervention.
Khayelitsha shack fire victims in relief limbo
The City of Cape Town says it has no budget for relief efforts after a New Year’s Day blaze in Khayelitsha’s Taiwan shack settlement left about 500 people homeless.
The village that didn’t know who to vote for
There is very little trace of political campaigning in Wupperthal, a village in the region where the wild rooibos grows and where descendants of the Khoi people who first inhabited this land live.