On 18 September 2013, twenty-one Social Justice Coalition activists will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate court for contravening provisions of the Regulation of Gatherings Act.
Sibusiso Tshabalala
Opinion | 18 September 2013
Mrs Nowelile Nonkelela stays in a one-room flat with her seven children and three grandsons. The family stays in Old Flats, Langa. Their room is situated in block C on the second floor where there are 20 such rooms.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 September 2013
Township residents are complaining that murders in the townships are not being taken seriously with media and political attention focusing on the Cape Flats.
Pharie Sefali
News | 18 September 2013
Roegchanda Pascoe and her younger brother have watched through the window of their home as rival gangs fought with each other day in and day out. But Pascoe says she doesnāt see herself living anywhere but Manenberg.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 18 September 2013
The Ig Nobel prizes are the cheeky kid brother of the illustrious Nobel Prizes like the Razzies are to the Oscars.
By Kerry Gordon
News | 18 September 2013
The Neil Aggett Memorial lecture was delivered by Jay Naidoo at Kingswood College, Grahamstown on 13 September 2013.
Jay Naidoo
Opinion | 17 September 2013
The Baxter Theater hosted the second annual Hip Hop Kasālam Spaza awards on 14 August to celebrate this unique hip hop genre. Hip Hop Kasālam provides a platform for young rappers to perform in their indigenous languages and the vernacular.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
News | 17 September 2013
āWe demand accountable leadershipā, āFailure to resolve stock-outs = human rights violationā, āLimpopo Department of Health ā Failed promisesā read placards at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) march in solidarity with provinces that continue to be plagued by finding essential medicines are out of stock.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 16 September 2013
This is an edited extract from a speech by Prof. Roy Jobson at a memorial for Dr. Neil Aggett at Kingswood College on 14 September 2013.
Roy Jobson
News | 16 September 2013
āItās the same, the whole world over, itās the poor what gets the blame.ā So starts the chorus of a well-known British music hall song. Today it could be a two-line anthem for the international labour movement as the economic crisis continues to bite and disillusionment with the existing political order grows.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 16 September 2013
Several Social Justice Coalition (SJC) members who chained themselves to railings at the Civic Centre in Cape Town this morning vowing they would not budge until Mayor Patricia de Lille addressed them, were arrested and held at Caledon Square Police Station. They have not yet been charged.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 11 September 2013
An obsession with spinach makes a good baker -- that at least applies to 25-year-old Lufefe Nomjana.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 September 2013
Members of various civil society organisations led a solidarity visit to gang stricken Manenberg to monitor the situation and to lend a helping hand to the community.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 11 September 2013
The debacle around Dali Mpofu's fees at the Farlam Commission is an important moment.
Jack Lewis
Opinion | 11 September 2013
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