Stones thrown at trains in Cape Town

Metrorail says 16 trains have been taken out of service for repairs

Treasury defends SRD grant regulations

The Institute of Economic Justice is challenging regulations for the Social Relief of Distress grant which it says are unconstitutional.

No lifeline for teachers as Godongwana warns of “difficult trade-offs”

“Budget cuts kill education” protesters tell Minister of Finance

Cape Town City Council votes to release land for affordable housing

On Wednesday the City gave the green light for the release of land in Brackenfell, Wesfleur and Belhar

Rail: a Masterplan will only be ready by next year, says Ramaphosa

City of Cape Town expresses disappointment at the slow pace of change

Bedsores and maggots: Ikamva Labantu’s shocking findings on elder abuse

Research report released into neglect and abuse of older people in Cape Town’s poor communities

Mister Sweet workers shut down labour department

They claim that an inspector left a Mister Sweet factory with “a lot of packets of sweets”

Community health workers picket outside Labour Court

NEHAWU has brought a case to compel the health department to give the workers permanent jobs

Ivaldo Macamo lost his leg when the George building collapsed. He is still waiting for compensation

Not one of the families we spoke to has received any payout

Teacher posts: Western Cape education department quizzed in Parliament

“We’re not retrenching teachers. We’re reducing posts,” says WCED head

Parliament debates report on Thabo Bester’s prison escape

“There’s public expectation that the parliamentary process we started in the previous term will be concluded,” says MP

Shacks and schools ruined as storm ravages Musina

A shack was blown several metres

Court bid to declare social grant regulations unconstitutional

About 8-million people are being denied the R370 SRD grant according to the Institute for Economic Justice

Disability grant applicant collapses: SASSA responds to our story

African Penguins now officially “critically endangered”

The bird is facing rapid population decline from competition with commercial fisheries and climate-mediated shifts in prey populations

Opposition to open cast coal mining in Midvaal

For years residents have been objecting to the Springfield and Vlakfontein mining project