
Hair and beauty courses help refugees and migrants
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.
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.
The politically connected Nelani family is suspected of thwarting a couple’s decade-long attempt to formalise the lease for the state-owned land they have farmed productively for 31 years.
The city’s traders and enterprising entrepreneurs complain that red tape stops them earning a living as they try to create jobs and enhance the experience of public spaces.
The Eastern Cape town is a desperate place for its residents, many of whom are forced to stay in houses overrun with effluent, while the municipality does nothing.
The few days of rain have done little to alleviate drought in the Eastern Cape, leaving emerging farmers with starving livestock and withered crops as some wait for promised government aid.
A successful land restitution project in the Eastern Cape is being hampered by government’s failure to provide basic services for the family working and living there.
Angry residents and activists from the ‘disaster area’ of the Eastern Cape are pointing fingers at government mismanagement and misinformation concerning the water shortage.
Water supply in the Eastern Cape is precarious as the continuing drought compounds run-down municipal systems and the government’s failure to pre-empt the effects of climate change.
The shack dwellers’ movement expressed opposition to violence against women and migrants and called on the state to stop neglecting impoverished communities.