
Art transforms waste, space and people in Brixton
Waste Not Want Not, a new exhibition at Shade Artist Studio, tells the story of a street, a suburb and the powerful possibilities of space.
Waste Not Want Not, a new exhibition at Shade Artist Studio, tells the story of a street, a suburb and the powerful possibilities of space.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic taking its toll on the sport at school level, with kids missing crucial age-related developmental stages, there has been an uptick in girls wanting to play the game.
Impoverished students suffer the consequences when the National Student Financial Aid Scheme fails to pay universities, which then withhold academic records.
Learners from the schools affected by a taxi accident in which nine children died used the funeral service to plead with the education department and parents to keep them safe.
Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover.
The Johannesburg suburb’s Light Festival realised – over the course of a day – the magical, equalising and humanising moments that culture can create.
Four activists who exposed corruption in the province were killed in 2019. Three people have been arrested, but those who allegedly orchestrated the assassinations remain at large.
When the first woman to lead the federation in the province delivered her opening address she critiqued the ANC for its attack on collective bargaining and pushed it for answers to unemployment.
Iminyaka emva kokuhlala kumzi odilikayo, usapho lakwaMbundana lwafuduselwa kwizakhiwo zethutyana ezathi ekubeni zingenambane zabe zisafana nqwa! nezo basuswe kuzo. Ngoku, olu sapho lunyanzelisa ngekhaya elisisigxina.
After years of staying in ramshackle accommodation, the Mbundana family were moved to temporary units that have no electricity and are as fragile as their old abode. They want a permanent home.
Funani George Nqoko has left big paralegal shoes to fill in the rural Eastern Cape town where he set up and ran the Elliot Advice Office. His colleagues say they will continue his good work.
The Jesuit Refugee Service’s skills programme uplifts refugees, migrants and South African women by teaching them business skills and offering beauty and hairdressing courses.
Residents of this township in one of Mpumalanga’s coal-mining districts have been benefitting from grassroots initiatives to turn ugly dumping sites into precious green spaces.
An 88-year-old woman has been threatened with the culturally taboo removal of her family’s ancestral graves after being evicted from the farm she worked on for decades.
In the same week lockdown restrictions are eased and an effective Covid-19 drug is hailed by the medical fraternity, one municipality buckles under the weight of infections.
Pharmacists at one of the major public hospitals in Gauteng say they only received sufficient protective gear after several of their colleagues contracted Covid-19.
Tshepang and Phethisang Makhethe are trailblazers of sorts with their exploits in hammer throwing, an athletics event that doesn’t have many black competitors in South Africa.
In this second of a two-part series, Achille Mbembe interrogates the salience of wealth and property, and race and difference as central idioms in framing social struggles.
The government has said it has the resources to combat Covid-19. But with repatriated citizens from China set to be quarantined in Limpopo, residents are concerned about the lack of safety information.
Striking Numsa members at Rustenburg’s LanXess chrome mine will not budge until management has addressed profiteering, corruption and sexual harassment.
ACFS Community Education in Meadowlands provides daily meals and after-school support to children, and now has a computer lab. Parents can learn, too, and benefit from the vegetable garden.