Articles for Joseph Bracken
Unpaid contractors block water services depot in Durban
The water and sanitation contractors say they are ignored by eThekwini Municipality
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 20 July 2026
EThekwini municipality owes Durban plumbers hundreds of thousands of rands
One contractor claims the municipality owes for five outstanding invoices totalling R250,000
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 17 July 2026
Six refugees beaten in xenophobic attack
African refugees working in salons around Durban’s Warwick Street Market were attacked and beaten by men with sticks. Two of them were hospitalised.
News | 16 July 2026
Pietermaritzburg’s R1-billion transport flop
No buses operate on Msunduzi Municipality’s failed public transport system
News | 13 July 2026
Refugees in Durban say they have nowhere to go
About 400 legally documented refugees have camped outside Durban’s Refugee Reception Centre for a month, fleeing threats of violence
News | 7 July 2026
Desperate to escape violence, hundreds of immigrants camp outside closed Durban repatriation site
The municipality is urging people not to go to the old drive-in site which it closed on 29 June
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 3 July 2026
140 buses take 7,000 displaced immigrants to Musina
People continue to arrive at the old Drive-In site in Durban
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 29 June 2026
In photos: Immigrants stream to repatriation site in Durban
Struggling authorities are now trying to move people to a new makeshift repatriation site closer to the border in Musina, Limpopo
Text by Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.
Photo Essay | 28 June 2026
South Africans lose income as immigrants flee
“I keep asking myself, ‘Where is Ubuntu?’” says landlord
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 26 June 2026