Wednesday, 29 June 2022
The late Elizabeth Mkame dedicated her life to helping the marginalised and impoverished. She served tirelessly not only during some of the worst times of apartheid, but also in the fraught years since.
Many people in SA’s townships and rural areas struggle to make a living. Since 2008, one organisation has been doing its bit to help change this pattern.
The sports doc approaches her role of caring for athletes with passion and enjoys what she says is a privileged journey despite the race and gender challenges she has been forced to overcome.
The reopened inquest into the apartheid activist’s death in 1977 suggests Security Branch officers tortured him, with a then junior officer giving the clearest picture yet of what happened.
The Covid-19 social relief of distress grant has helped impoverished families buy much-needed food, but it is too little to provide other essentials.
The Golden Steps school in KwaZulu-Natal lost not only its computer room and kitchen, but also some of its children’s means to communicate and learn a skill that grants them independence.
Some residents in areas affected by the July riots have lost their livelihoods, have to travel far to get to the jobs that remain and walk long distances to unaffected shopping centres.
Organisers invited teams from surrounding areas to participate at Eastbury Grounds in order to begin healing the racial rifts that the July unrest and killings caused in the KwaZulu-Natal township.
Abahleli bomqhudelwano bebememe amaqembu asezindaweni ezehlukene ezakhelene nePhoenix ukuba azozwana amandla enkundleni yase-Eastbury ngenhloso yokuqala uhlelo lokubuyisana kwezinhlanga ezixabane ngesikhathi sezibhelu nokubulawa kwabantu okwenzeke ngoNtulikazi kuleli lokishi laKwaZulu-Natal.
Residents of Adams in KwaZulu-Natal were watching over a popular tuck shop run by a Pakistani refugee when a drive-by shooting killed one of them. The mother of the victim doubts there will be justice for her son.
With a basic income grant well and truly on the cards, the kind of grant South Africa might get is as important as whether we get it at all.
Decades-old unresolved racial tensions fuelled anew by the killings in Phoenix in KwaZulu-Natal are threatening a fragile relationship between the township and its neighbours.
The family members of loved ones killed by vigilantes in Phoenix, north of Durban, during the week of unrest are demanding justice as they bury their relatives.
Without the caregiver top-up and the social relief of distress grants to soften Covid-19’s economic blow, impoverished households, especially those headed by women, are floundering.
Thousands of impoverished South Africans are condemned to die miserable, painful and lonely deaths because of state bumbling around palliative care.
The anti-Israel protests in the harbour city are the latest in a long line of strikes at the port against colonisation and apartheid.
South Africa’s prison system is fraught with irregularities, with many institutions failing to rehabilitate offenders. One, however, is proving rehabilitation is possible.
The 71-year-old paddler lines up for his 50th Dusi Canoe Marathon on 18 March, etching his name into the history books of the race. But Wheeler says he could go on for another decade.
The triple threat of inequality, poverty and unemployment means more than 18 million South Africans depend on social grants to feed their families, try to find work and travel for healthcare.
Beachside sellers and rickshaw pullers say it will take years to recover from the devastation of the Covid-19 restrictions, with many fearing their businesses will have to close.
New guidelines from the Competition Commission should result in cheaper repairs and services for vehicles, and more choice in where to have them done.