Photo Essay | Rural residents get Covid jab
Non-profit organisation Right to Care has been taking vaccines to underserved areas of the Eastern Cape, giving protection to more than 4 000 people in a month.
Stories by: Barry Christianson
How Leon Trotsky birthed a bookshop
Borrowing one of the Marxist revolutionary’s books sparked a love of political reading for the owner of Surplus in Cape Town, where a huge collection can be found.
Part three | HIV lessons for Covid-19
The last in this three-part series highlights how, unlike during the HIV and Aids epidemic in South Africa, no ordinary people have taken to the streets to demand vaccines.
Part two | HIV lessons for Covid-19
The second in this three-part series shows the critical role communities played in HIV and Aids treatment in rural Lusikisiki, a neglected aspect of the government’s coronavirus vaccine rollout.
Part one | HIV lessons for Covid-19
The first in this three-part series looks at how South Africans overcame the pharmaceutical patents blocking access to life-saving antiretrovirals during the country’s first epidemic, HIV and Aids.
In Pictures | Firefighters now fight for their jobs
Firefighters risked their lives to put out the flames threatening Cape Town. But more than 500 of them might be fired for trying to negotiate better working hours.
Handling Covid-19 with no government clinic in sight
Bulungula Incubator is using its Xhora Mouth health point to respond to infections in this rural Eastern Cape area, where the nearest government clinic is a three-hour walk away.
An inherited struggle for dance
Nokuthula Qobongwana inherited her mother’s passion for dance and hopes to make a living through it. Just as she was getting started, Covid-19 came and halted it all.
Photo Essay | Comfort in an old Cape favourite
As 2020 came to an end, residents of the Cape Flats attempted to carve out some fun within the everyday chaos of the pandemic by visiting the Sea Point swimming pool.
Cape Town mayor’s no-show sparks services protest
The Intlungu yaseMatyotyombeni Movement, a grouping of shack dwellers, shut down the Civic Centre in an effort to get the City to provide services in their newly established settlements.
Community health workers’ pleas fall on deaf ears
The Western Cape health department steadfastly refuses to grant permanent employment to these workers, who receive paltry salaries and little recognition for the vital roles they fulfil.
Another child killed by callous police action
Video footage shows that members of the Western Cape police’s public order unit fired blithely at the homes of protesters in Laingville, resulting in the death of nine-year-old Leo Williams.
Bonteheuwel community centre spat lands up in court
The community action network in Bonteheuwel has taken the DA ward councillor to court over who has the right to use the local multipurpose centre.
Photo Essay | Tafelberg judgment gives activists hope
The court has set aside the sale of a Sea Point property and ordered local government to address spatial apartheid, injecting energy and hope into the Cissie Gool House occupation in Woodstock.
Community Care Centre in Ocean View a success
Ocean View residents who test positive for Covid-19 can now quarantine and self-isolate close to home while trained volunteers from the area look after them.
Healing connection at a Covid-19 isolation facility
Residents at a well-run facility in Cape Town found sharing their experiences – both as patients and citizens – aided their physical and emotional recovery.
Cape Town’s illegal Hangberg demolition reversed
The City of Cape Town had to rebuild a Wendy House-style home that it twice illegally and unconstitutionally demolished. Ginola Phillips and his brother have a home once more.
‘We were quiet, but they were violent’
In this second instalment in a series on police violence, New Frame investigates how police allegedly assaulted Petrus Miggels in Uitsig. He died at his home shortly after.
The unlikely story of Khayelitsha’s field hospital
Three people who found themselves marooned in Cape Town used their time and expertise to play key roles in setting up a 60-bed medical facility for Covid-19 patients in Khayelitsha.
How the Covid-19 team in Khayelitsha is coping
The Kess response team has been working tirelessly since mid-February to try keep the spread of the coronavirus in check, changing its strategy as the situation evolves.
Photo Essay | Capetonians come together to feed the hungry
During the government’s Covid-19 lockdown, four Western Cape communities have found ways to provide food for the hungry through collective volunteer action.