Brief

Initiation school mired in filth

Illegal dumping is compromising Xhosa traditional practice at a school in Govan Mbeki

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Brief | 7 November 2019

“Urine streams down the taxi rank”

Toilets at Govan Mbeki Taxi Rank in Port Elizabeth have not worked for three months, commuters say

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Brief | 6 November 2019

Ex-political prisoner dies, leaving family in poverty

Albert Tywili was one of the Upington 14

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Brief | 6 November 2019

Informal traders protest in Mitchells Plain

Protesters demand safer trading environment

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Brief | 5 November 2019

Public protector taken to court over PRASA corruption report

Activist group #UniteBehind accuses advocate Mkhwebane of ignoring state capture evidence

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Brief | 5 November 2019

Eastern Cape villagers voted hoping to get electricity

“They make all sort of promises during elections and once elections are over you won’t see them”

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Brief | 4 November 2019

People with albinism march for skin cancer awareness

Sunscreens are available at state hospitals for people with albinism

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Brief | 4 November 2019

Vrygrond protesters demand to be given occupied land

Bus petrol-bombed; three people treated for burns

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Brief | 1 November 2019

Commuters demand safer public transport for women and children

Women say they are groped and robbed

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Brief | 31 October 2019

Limpopo Premier wages “war on potholes” – but only on Facebook

Hours after the photoshoot, the trucks had left

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Brief | 31 October 2019

Land to be freed up in Cape Town city centre

Land under unfinished freeway to be returned to City

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Brief | 31 October 2019

Villagers without drinking water blame government, not the drought

Pipes installed in Dutywa villages in 2008 have never had water

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Brief | 30 October 2019

Cape Town residents battle spring floods

Deluge of rain over weekend leaves shacks and roads waterlogged

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Brief | 28 October 2019

North West housing protesters fear for their lives

Cyferskuil leader attacked in his home after protest stops construction

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Brief | 28 October 2019

Thugs scare municipal workers away from broken township drains

Drain in Soweto-on-Sea took months to fix

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Brief | 28 October 2019

Trial of official accused of stealing railway line set for June

Mthuthuzeli Swartz and Nadhir Mohiudeen are accused of theft and fraud

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Brief | 25 October 2019