Renowned Palestinian poet performs in Khayelitsha

On 24 September 2013, Remi Kanazi, a world-renowned Palestinian-American performance poet, gave a performance of his poetry in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Kanazi’s poetry covers a range of topics, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Islamophobia and imperialism.

Staff writer

News | 30 September 2013

Westgate Mall horror

News | 27 September 2013

Fewer learners fed after feeding tender goes BEE

Since the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA) lost a tender by the Department of Education’s National School Nutrition Programme to deliver a school feeding service, two schools are complaining that the service has decreased, and learners are hungry.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 26 September 2013

Wallacedene Heritage Day

News | 25 September 2013

Zimbabwean man dies in Langebaan police cells

A Zimbabwean family has accused the police of negligence and human rights abuses after 29-year-old Arthur Padzakashamba died in custody in the Langebaan police cells. The family alleges that he was arrested when reporting a domestic violence case against his estranged wife after she had allegedly stabbed him on 6 September 2013.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 25 September 2013

Angolans lose refugee status

Petro Nzazi (not his real name) and his young brother are refugees from Angola. They have lost their refugee status, and they are now left without any identity documents.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 25 September 2013

Taste of my heritage

NdinguMambhathane, uTshaya, uMxesibe, uMgxubane, Khandanyawana, uMam’Khuma, Nxele, Bhaca, isizukulwana sika Ntswayibana noBhakaqana.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

Opinion | 23 September 2013

Ties that bind

For me heritage goes deeper than the colour of my skin. It starts from the very beginning, my birth.

Nwabisa Pondoyi

Opinion | 23 September 2013

This story is called…

A little north west of the road which runs from Ixopo into the hills of KwaZulu-Natal immortalised by Alan Paton, is a quiet, slow-moving enclave. The Kamberg Valley, just 78 kilometres east of Lesotho, kneels before the Drakensberg mountain range, crimped by the wind and harshness of the rocky land over millions of years to coalesce into a silencing, breathless serenity.

Greg Solik

Opinion | 23 September 2013

How to become a murderer in Nyanga

Sipho [name changed] is 18 years old and a hardened gangster. He has lived his whole life in Nyanga, the Cape Town township with the highest rate of murder in the country.

Pharie Sefali

News | 22 September 2013

Cosatu 2013

News | 19 September 2013

Bridging the gap

News | 18 September 2013

SJC Civil Disobedience matter postponed

The matter against the twenty-one Social Justice Coalition (SJC) activists, who took part in a civil disobedience action last week, has been postponed to 23 October 2013. The 21 activists appeared before the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court this morning.

Sibusiso Tshabalala

Brief | 18 September 2013

What is the role of civil disobedience in South Africa?

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

Snapshot of poverty in Cape Town

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

Gang violence, not just Manenberg

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