Desmond Tutu's support for assisted dying made headlines across the world this week, and brought the debate into the mainstream in South Africa.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 15 July 2014
For the past 17 years Moriedah Dien has been a volunteer at the Steenberg police station Victim Support Room, assisting anyone who has experienced crime. Now she wants to establish a proper safe house for women who are victims of domestic violence.
Yazeed Kamaldien
News | 15 July 2014
Thabani Marhanjana is growing a vegetable garden in an unusal place - on the roof of a two-story building in Makhaza, Khayelitsha.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 July 2014
The ministerial inquiry into the eviction of hundreds of informal settlement residents in Nomzamo near Lwandle Strand began today.
Barbara Maregele
News | 14 July 2014
On Saturday, 12 July, COSATU held a demonstration at Cape Town Station to demand improved train service and that Metrorail lower fares to the same as before the recent ticket price increase.
Joy Shan
News | 14 July 2014
“The misery of people here is very great, with beggars innumerable and increasing every day....pigs and calves live better than they.” That rhyming comment could apply to the legions of the poor in many parts of the world today. And South Africa is no exception.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 14 July 2014
About ten years ago, an anthropologist from South Africa and a documentarian from the United States began to set in motion a film that would explore what they see as the West’s obsession with “rescuing” Africa.
Joy Shan
News | 14 July 2014
Judgment will be delivered on 18 July in the case of Andile Lili and six others charged after the “poo protests” in the city in June 2013.
Pharie Sefali
Brief | 11 July 2014
Are Cape Town city strip joints filled with sex slaves? Marlise Richter investigates.
Marlise Richter
Opinion | 11 July 2014
The Zikhali family have always made traditional mats, but hope their youngest daughter will have other options
The decaying Rapokolana facility was built in 2005 but has never been fully operational. It is a missed opportunity for athletes from South Africa and Lesotho.
ProEthics and its director Dr Janette Minnaar tried to stop us publishing this article
Repressive regimes should have no place in our military strategy
There have been too many prepublication gag orders in recent times
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