Articles for Ashraf Hendricks
Picket against “water apartheid”
There’s enough water - the problem is allocation, says protester
Brief | 8 December 2023
Township boxing gym punches far above its weight
Mzi Damesi started the Overstrand Whale Boxing Club nearly 20 years ago in Hermanus
Photo Essay | 7 December 2023
The Big Issue might have to shut down after R600,000 cyber scam
It was a targeted attack, says cyber security firm probing the theft from the magazine’s account
News | 30 November 2023
Solidarity demonstrations with Palestinians held in Joburg and Cape Town
“We also faced a very oppressive apartheid regime” says protester
By Matthew Hirsch, Ihsaan Haffejee and Ashraf Hendricks
Photo Essay | 29 November 2023
Sex workers gather in Cape Town to push for decriminalisation
COSATU calls for sex workers to unionise
News | 22 November 2023
Spoekiesdorp families haunted by past evictions and uncertain future
“Many of us are here because we were evicted from farms. We were dumped here”
Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 17 November 2023
Pro-Israel protest disrupted in Cape Town
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis calls for tolerance, emphasises right to protest and condemns threat against Jewish school
By Ashraf Hendricks, Matthew Hirsch and Ella Morrison
Photo Essay | 12 November 2023
Cable theft and shootings force Cape Town libraries to close
But the people who work at the libraries in Hanover Park and Bellville are determined to continue creating safe spaces for their communities
News | 23 October 2023
Thousands march in Cape Town, call for ceasefire in Gaza
Protesters demand that South Africans who join Israeli Defence Force be prosecuted
Text by Matthew Hirsch. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 22 October 2023