Articles for Joseph Bracken

Unemployed teachers camp outside KZN education department

Department ignores them

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Brief | 19 January 2026

Durban mayor urged to investigate assaults on homeless people

People we spoke to describe being beaten with sjamboks by Ensure Security’s masked guards. The company denies this.

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News | 18 December 2025

We rode Metrorail in Cape Town to see if it has improved

While there are still problems, the service is much more reliable than a few years ago. And it’s much cheaper than any other commuter transport.

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News | 3 December 2025

Hundreds of incomplete homes stand empty in KwaZulu-Natal housing project

Provincial government has spent more than R101-million

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News | 17 November 2025

Official implicated in corruption appointed head of KZN social development

Onkemetse Edwin Kabasia is implicated by multiple forensic investigations into procurement irregularities in Gauteng

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News | 5 November 2025

Durban community hall left to ruin by municipality

Jabulani Hall has broken windows and collapsing ceilings and its dilapidated offices are occupied by people who say they were displaced by floods in 2022

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News | 28 October 2025

Magistrates protest outside court, demanding higher wages

Magistrates are under-recognised and under-paid, says former Constitutional Court judge Edwin Cameron

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Brief | 14 October 2025

In northern KwaZulu-Natal, villagers have to fix their own roads and drains

They can’t wait for the government to prepare for the next rainy season

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News | 13 October 2025