Articles for Joseph Bracken
Unemployed doctors protest in Pietermaritzburg
They want hospitals to be able to recruit directly
Brief | 17 June 2026
200 refugees, legally in SA, forced to join thousands camping outside Sherwood Hall
Police told them to leave Durban Home Affairs office to avoid a March and March event
News | 17 June 2026
Msunduzi cannot say how much it spent on this vandalised community centre
The municipality failed to complete the project and left it to ruin
News | 17 June 2026
Hundreds protest new land occupation law in Durban and Joburg
Activists fear amendment bill will criminalise poor and landless people, and those who help them
By Joseph Bracken, Ihsaan Haffejee and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 12 June 2026
Housing project for KZN flood victims creeps forward
Hundreds more families are in rented emergency accommodation
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 1 June 2026
Legally in SA but scared to go home: 150 immigrants camping at Durban Home Affairs
People driven from their neighbourhoods by anti-immigrant groups have spent five days moving between a police station, a church centre and Home Affairs
News | 22 May 2026
Shops shut as anti-immigrant protesters march through Durban
Over 1,000 take part in March and March demonstration
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 6 May 2026
Investigation into beating by Ensure guards is still ongoing, say eThekwini municipality
This follows CCTV footage showing a homeless person being assaulted by Ensure security guards in December. Despite this, the Denis Hurley Centre says complaints of beatings by guards continue.
Brief | 28 April 2026
Durban organisations come together to fight xenophobia
But dozens of shops were closed in the city centre as the March and March “clean-up” continued
By Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
Brief | 23 April 2026