Articles for Marecia Damons
Climate activists picket at Parliament - accuse COP26 of excluding African farmers
“If there is no drastic change we won’t be able to farm with cattle and maize in a few years time”
News | 8 November 2021
Give us better cops, say Mitchells Plain protesters
Residents of one of Cape Town’s largest townships demand better cops
Brief | 28 October 2021
Police use stun grenades to break up Cape Town housing protest
This followed a raid of the Woodstock Hospital occupation earlier on Friday
News | 15 October 2021
Cape Town home owners, fed up with City’s lack of action, pay to house homeless
Residents of houses on the border of Van Riebeeck Park made a plan to cover the cost of accomodating the people living in the park - for now
By Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons
News | 14 October 2021
Court ordered Eastern Cape education department to build 65 classrooms in four schools within 90 days, in February 2020. So far, only 17 have been built.
Fed-up parents build their own classrooms
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Marecia Damons
News | 12 October 2021
Hundreds of workers march for end to pay freeze
COSATU members and affiliated unions held demonstrations across the country
By Marecia Damons, Masego Mafata and Joseph Chirume
News | 7 October 2021
Matriculant petitions for stateless youths to get into universities
She is among many South African-born children with immigrant parents struggling to get identification documents
News | 7 October 2021
Steel workers countrywide down tools, demanding 8% wage hike
Man dies during NUMSA march in Gqeberha
By Masego Mafata, Joseph Chirume, Nokulunga Majola and Marecia Damons
News | 5 October 2021
Tardy courts: Nearly 100 judgments outstanding for more than six months
The Constitutional Court which should be setting an example had seven late judgments at the end of June
News | 1 October 2021