Articles for Mosima Rafapa
Taps ran dry over a decade ago in North West Village
Villagers have depended on buying water from private tankers and people with wells
News | 28 February 2020
North West schools call off week-long shutdown
Department promises to start constructing new school
Brief | 17 February 2020
Parents shut down five North West schools
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters and the education circuit manager had to be escorted out of the area
News | 10 February 2020
Schools threaten to shut down if government doesn’t build a new one
“Officials promised us heaven and earth”
News | 4 February 2020
Communities picket against mining bills
Activists criticise short comment period and that it was over the holiday period
News | 31 January 2020
Families claim they were duped into paying R50 to get a house
But Howard Soetwater of United Homeless People’s Association says it needs money to organise
News | 28 January 2020
Three months after they move in, family’s RDP house burns down
Fire in Wallacedene destroys 85 homes
Brief | 20 January 2020
Denying people in wheelchairs access to shops is discriminatory, argues lawyer
Mitchells Plain shop owner says policy was implemented to stop “rampant shoplifting”
By Barbara Maregele and Mosima Rafapa
Law | 15 January 2020
Mamelodi floods: “I watched as my shack was swept away”
Shackdwellers pick up the pieces
News | 11 December 2019