Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Ihsaan Haffejee is a Johannesburg-born photojournalist. He studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the Market Photo Workshop and has worked at a variety at South African and international publications. He has begun using video and filmmaking to better tell South African stories.
The low-grade form of heroin continues to strip the youth of their future and the young women living in a drug house in Ekurhuleni say the police do not take them seriously.
Daring to question the botched relocation of shack dwellers from one settlement to another has brought Abahlali members to the attention of hitmen and the metro police.
Ngenxa nje yokuba nesibindi sokubuza ngokungaphumeleli kohlelo lokutholelwa indawo entsha kwabantu abahlala emikhukhiwni besuswa kwenye sekufake amalungu Abahlali baseMjondolo enkingeni yokuzingelwa yizinkabi namaphoyisa kamasipala.
The Johannesburg high court has ruled that the City of Johannesburg charging convenors a levy to provide traffic control and policing during demonstrations violates the right to protest.
A fire at the Yeoville African Market in Johannesburg has left some sellers destitute, with shopkeepers saying vigilante group Operation Dudula threatened a week earlier to burn down the market.
Having been released from detention following their 2019 protest, a group returned to the pavement outside the UN refugee agency’s Pretoria offices. But residents and landlords don’t want them there.
The former provincial player did what every netballer does, but in his own remarkable way. He pivoted and changed direction to become South Africa’s highest-ranked male umpire in the sport.
A group of people who organised a new occupation, have been left homeless and brutalised after their shacks and belongings were destroyed. They blame an uncaring government for their plight.
Beleaguered residents of Palm Springs in the Emfuleni local municipality in Gauteng have been living without electricity and with sewage running in the streets.
After a journey of struggle and hardship, an asylum seeker whose first job in South Africa was being a car guard is now pursuing his PhD at the University of Pretoria.
The airline has been in business rescue for two years without a sign of relief for employees who have felt the stress of reduced pay, insecure jobs amid retrenchments and a heavy workload.
The South African-Nigerian novelist Yewande Omotoso has reimagined her deepest loss in An Unusual Grief, the darkly funny story of a mother who infiltrates her dead daughter’s life.
The election of a new leadership was a hotly contested affair that overshadowed workers’ issues, but the leaders claim that this was democracy at work.
Meet some of the people who have held the steps of the apex court for more than three weeks, sleeping out in the cold to demand reparations for apartheid crimes.
Published in 2001, the white paper for inclusive education is yet to be passed into law, leaving disabled learners without access to schools and with little legal recourse.
Kicking the president out of the federation’s main rally shows how tired workers are of the government protecting the private sector while claiming to be on the side of the working class.
PJ Simelane Secondary is the last no-fee school in Soweto to offer visual arts up to matric. Artist Senzeni Marasela and the staff are fighting to hold on to the programme.
A Johannesburg healer and birth attendant fights tirelessly to change the way communities perceive intersex babies, who are sometimes strangled after they are born.
The pioneering producer and sound engineer played a large part in altering the course of South African hip-hop with his contributions to both kwaito and motswako.
Arena co-owner Ayanda Mbele has turned car spinning into a family affair, taking the sport off the streets and giving aspiring spinners – particularly young women – a place to hone their skills.
Mourners who came to support the family of the migrant killed by a mob in Diepsloot did not hold back as they expressed who they really hold accountable for his death.