Saturday, 1 April 2023
Nation Nyoka writes with the hope of effecting social change in the interests of the marginalised. Social justice, politics and the advancement of the African continent and her people are high on her agenda.
The Expanded Public Works Programme offers relief to poverty-stricken families, but it also exploits workers by not providing benefits or job security.
The Tshwane metro has been placed under administration, the City of Joburg has no majority and Nelson Mandela Bay’s coalitions have collapsed. All the while, the people suffer.
Displaced residents who lost their Mamelodi homes in a devastating flood in December are struggling to rebuild their lives without shelter, documents or money.
The Department of Home Affairs has limited work and study options for refugees and asylum seekers, and discouraged political activity. Activists and experts say this is unconstitutional.
A hundred recyclers were displaced by floods in Centurion, which not only killed at least one person and destroyed homes, but also wiped out the waste pickers’ hard-earned savings.
It’s been eight years since legendary footballer Sócrates died. But the inspirational Brazilian’s legacy lives on.
Shacks in Vusimuzi have been demolished to make way for new infrastructure, leaving residents homeless, despite a court interdict.
Occupiers who moved into a former old age home in Observatory have been forced to live on the pavement outside the abandoned building. Now they’re waiting for the city to relocate them.
Speaking out against the military overthrow in the Latin American country, participants at the People’s Brics meeting in Brazil encouraged grassroots resistance to fight for democracy.
After 580 days in solitary confinement, Brazil’s former president left jail and addressed crowds of supporters, vowing to oppose the country’s ultra-rightwing government.
The East Rand shack settlement has seen an escalation in violent crime against women and children in the past several months as they deal with overcrowded living conditions and poor policing.
Those involved in the distribution of government houses in Gauteng fear for their lives as allegations of corruption in the allocation process leave desperate residents seething.
After being raped and abused repeatedly, a trainee reported her trainer to the police – only to be shunned by the sacred community for supposedly dishonouring the name of traditional healing.
Gauteng’s disaster management centre and a number of aid agencies are helping migrants affected by the xenophobic attacks in Katlehong to return to their home countries. But not everyone wants to go.
Trauma is often the gateway ‘drug’ that puts young South Africans on the path to nyaope addiction, and addiction carries a high price for them and their families.
Being situated next to Sandton, Africa’s richest patch, has not helped Alexandra township to develop. It remains a place of protest, illegal evictions and demolitions, and broken government promises.
Protests by #AlexShutdown are the latest in the long history of challenging black exclusion in Alexandra, which from very early in its existence became a place of black resistance.
A reblocking initiative in Tembisa has left a number of residents in the cold. But, despite winning an interdict against the development process, shack dwellers remain vulnerable.
With Youth Day looming, Kliptown residents reflect how the meaning of the day has degenerated, and how broken promises and alcohol have blunted South Africans’ sense of the future.
The process of making way for roads in the hope that services will follow has left some residents in despair and with half their homes destroyed and open to the elements.
Will the new CRL Rights Commission chair be as fearless as Mkhwanazi-Xaluva when it comes to abusive religious leaders and traditionalists who want to maintain male dominance?