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.
Stories by: James Puttick
Trials reflect growing interest in women’s football
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.
Financial aid schemes hinder graduates’ job search
Impoverished students suffer the consequences when the National Student Financial Aid Scheme fails to pay universities, which then withhold academic records.
Schoolchildren call for safer school transport
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.
Tuberculosis: South Africa’s forgotten killer
Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover.
Brixton lights up the right to the city
The Johannesburg suburb’s Light Festival realised – over the course of a day – the magical, equalising and humanising moments that culture can create.
No justice for Limpopo whistle-blowers
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.
Ester Mokoele makes history as Limpopo’s Cosatu head
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.
Izakhiwo ezitsha, iingxaki ezifanayo kusapho lwaseKhowa
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.
New structures, same problems for Khowa family
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.
Khowa mourns its heroic working-class activist
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.
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 activists who are greening Wesselton
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.
Land reform leads to eviction after 80 years’ labour
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.
Covid-19 Roundup | Breakthroughs and shut downs
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, denied frontline status, get PPE late
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.
Makhethe siblings hammer their way into history books
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.
From the Archive | Democracy as a community of life
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.
Rural areas in need of coronavirus information
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.
LanXess workers strike against exploitation
Striking Numsa members at Rustenburg’s LanXess chrome mine will not budge until management has addressed profiteering, corruption and sexual harassment.
Soweto computer lab gives life to dreams
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.