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Assassinated Abahlali leader praised for fighting land grab “mafia”
20 February 2026 | ARTICLE
By Ihsaan Haffejee
...Johannesburg. He said that the organisation was working with residents to gather more information to assist the police. Gladwin Lebelo and Albert Selokela, the chairperson and deputy chairperson of th...
College tries to evict 27 families to make way for students
13 August 2025 | ARTICLE
Text by Kimberly Mutandiro. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.
...Johannesburg to restore services. While the hearing was taking place, residents who remained at home said armed, private security personnel broke down doors to their flats and manhandled occupants, at...
Landmark judgment on evictions in Johannesburg
10 April 2025 | ARTICLE
By Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti
...Johannesburg High Court has ordered the City of Johannesburg to pay more than R12-million to a property company because of its failure to comply with a court order to provide temporary accommodation t...
A thriving black market for medicines has emerged in Joburg
31 March 2025 | ARTICLE
By Kimberly Mutandiro
...Johannesburg. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro Immigrants in Johannesburg who say they are denied health care in clinics have turned to the black market for smuggled medicines. Prescription-grade medicines ...
Operation Dudula’s victims demand justice
26 February 2025 | ARTICLE
By Kimberly Mutandiro
...Johannesburg building by anti-immigrant vigilantes. One of the victims, Margaret Maushe, who uses a wheelchair, now lives with her family in a “dark building” with 300 other families sharing two toile...
Tense standoff between police and Kliptown tenants
30 January 2025 | ARTICLE
By Silver Sibiya
...Johannesburg Social Housing Company (JOSHCO) flats in Kliptown, Soweto on Wednesday. Photos: Silver Sibiya Tyres and rubble were torched in the streets outside the Johannesburg Social Housing Company...
Displaced Limpopo farmers battle to make a living
13 June 2024 | ARTICLE
By Bernard Chiguvare
...Johannesburg. Some of them had employees. Some donated produce to schools in the area. In July 2022, the farmers suddenly found that fencing poles had been erected on the land. They went to complain t...
Dozens of shacks demolished in Midrand
14 May 2024 | ARTICLE
By Silver Sibiya
...Johannesburg demolishes the shacks and they rebuild. City spokesperson says this is not an eviction because the shacks were not occupied. Dozens of shacks in Rabie Ridge informal settlement in Midran...
Jo’burg building fire survivors march to mayor’s office
26 April 2024 | ARTICLE
By Jabulile Mbatha
Scores of people marched to the Johannesburg mayor’s office under the umbrella of the Marshalltown Fire Justice Campaign on Friday. Photo: Jabulile Mbatha Scores of people, some of them survivors of ...
Widow’s shack demolished six times since September
24 April 2024 | ARTICLE
By Kimberly Mutandiro
Tholakhele Nkosi digging a hole with just the head of a pickaxe to put up a support pole for her shack. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro Johannesburg metro police demolished shacks in Rabie Ridge for the ...