Articles for Liezl Human
City of Cape Town stops Brass Bell restaurant from building on beach
Owner wanted a wooden deck to provide people with “an area to sunbathe without getting covered in sea sand”
By Liezl Human
News | 1 April 2022
Funding crisis in North West as Social Development department fails to pay subsidies
One organisation has already had to close three offices
By Liezl Human
News | 30 March 2022
Farm women demand Distell act against suppliers that violate workers’ rights
“We work in the vineyard, we grow it, we prune it, we work with the fruit, but we get the least money” says farm worker
By Liezl Human
News | 24 March 2022
Video: How a disabled man has brought chess to one of Cape Town’s poorest schools
Sidwell Mayekiso hopes one of his students will one day become a Grandmaster
By Ashraf Hendricks and Liezl Human
Video | 18 March 2022
Parents of Villiersdorp learners plead for isiXhosa-medium school
Western Cape education department acknowledges there is a need for isiXhosa or English language schools in the Overberg region
By Liezl Human
News | 16 March 2022
Video: South Africa’s new poaching problem
Over 1.5 million succulents have been removed from the wild in the past 3 years
By Ashraf Hendricks and Liezl Human
Video | 8 March 2022
Northern Cape’s rare succulents are being stolen for the international illegal market
Plant poaching is on the increase, say police
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 7 March 2022
Stellenbosch students march against war in Ukraine
Ukrainian expats describe their anguish
By Liezl Human
Brief | 2 March 2022
Finance Minister announces 2022 social grant increases
New grant for orphans announced in budget. Nearly one in two South Africans now receives a grant
By Liezl Human
Brief | 23 February 2022