Call for youth subsidy to be scrapped
Labour and education rights groups have called for the immediate scrapping of the youth wage subsidy following the release of UCT research on its effectiveness.
Barbara Maregele
News | 22 January 2015
What scares Khayelitsha’s budding cycling team?
Snethemba Vaphi (22) can't hide his excitement about being a cyclist. He wants to compete internationally.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 22 January 2015
Organisation provides hope and skills to thousands of kids
At 22 years of age, Brightness Khumalo, has found a job that she describes as hard but which she clearly finds rewarding.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 22 January 2015
Sports complex trashed after security withdrawn
Mfuleni’s sports complex was vandalised and looted over the festive season. A community leader, who is lobbying for the trashed buildings to be renovated, has blamed the City of Cape Town for cancelling a contract with a security company to protect the grounds.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 22 January 2015
Constitutional rights apply to sex workers too
A year ago, some boys in my street came home late at night with a sex worker. They refused to pay her.
Abigail McDougall
Opinion | 22 January 2015
“My son was too young to have died like this”
The father of a sixteen-year-old boy who was killed by a mob in Mfuleni yesterday has criticised the police for not being on hand to help prevent the attack or to arrest any of the killers.
Daneel Knoetze
Brief | 21 January 2015
Is this the dirtiest job in Cape Town?
It’s midday and in 29 degree heat Sannicare contract workers Prudence Brink, Carmelita Johnson and Francious Beukes are having lunch, sitting on empty portable toilets in front of the depot at Airport Industria where thousands of toilets are cleaned daily.
Text by Zintle Swana. Photos by Masixole Feni.
Feature | 21 January 2015
“Enough is enough!” - Manenberg residents take to the streets
Instead of the familiar echo of bullets, the sound of dozens of Manenberg residents chanting “Enough is enough” could be heard last night through the streets notorious for the recent spate of gang violence in the area.
Barbara Maregele
News | 21 January 2015
Classrooms of the future?
The air is thick with the excitement of the first week of school. Stories of bright-eyed learners whose parents are dropping them off for the start of their school careers, donning their too-big uniforms and carrying backpacks almost the size of the learners themselves, are all over newspapers, radio stations, televisions and social media.
Nikki Stein
Opinion | 21 January 2015