Brief

Benoni pensioners take to the streets

Fix our flats, protesters tell municipality

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Brief | 12 June 2025

Fourth man dies after xenophobic attacks in Addo

Still no arrests after mob displaces hundreds of immigrant families

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Brief | 11 June 2025

Rotten rat park gets rescued

Dunoon children get a safe playground at last

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Brief | 11 June 2025

Railway line theft trial delayed by state witness’s illness

Former PRASA regional manager and Cape Town businessman won’t be back in the dock for more than a month

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Brief | 10 June 2025

“Where is our water?” protesters ask mayor

Nquthu in KwaZulu-Natal shut down by protest

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Brief | 10 June 2025

Pensioner spends R1,000 a month on water in this Free State village

Qholaqhwe village has not had running water for more than five months

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Brief | 9 June 2025

RDP occupiers protest at Ekhurhuleni mayor’s office for services

“The City should stop calling us illegal occupants and give us services”

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Brief | 5 June 2025

Protest over unsafe dirt roads in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Nquthu and Mzinyathi Municipalities promise to fix roads next week

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Brief | 5 June 2025

They escaped with their lives. Now they’ve been arrested

Immigration officers arrest more than 100 Zimbabweans seeking shelter after xenophobic attacks

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Brief | 3 June 2025

Sex workers offer justice department help

Activists want the decriminalisation bill to be fast tracked

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Brief | 3 June 2025

Paramedics protest in Mfuleni, following attacks

“We are now working closer with the police and the community to make sure that the emergency services workers are protected at all costs”

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Brief | 2 June 2025

2,000 households in Katlehong without electricity and clean toilets

Residents demand municipality fulfil its promises

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Brief | 2 June 2025

Cash-strapped City Power in tense standoff with protesters in Alexandra

The power utility says more than 800 households in Riverpark were either not buying electricity at all or had “suspiciously low” purchase rates

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Brief | 30 May 2025

Protesters try to block Cape Town’s Central Line

The group lives on the rail reserve along Stock Road in Philippi East and is demanding that PRASA move them to permanent accommodation

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Brief | 29 May 2025

One in four South Africans don’t have enough food. Activists call for action

Union Against Hunger shines light on the right to food

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Brief | 29 May 2025

Union members march in Durban, demanding permanent jobs

Workers also want uniforms and overtime pay

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Brief | 29 May 2025