News
PE nurses strike escalates
Health workers are worried about their safety after a spate of assaults
News | 8 October 2019
One in seven plants and animals in SA threatened with extinction, new report shows
Alien vegetation has a “severe impact” on biodiversity says SANBI
News | 8 October 2019
Key takeaways: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality
There were over 42,000 criminal complaints against the police from April 2012 to March 2019, and only 531 successful prosecutions
News | 7 October 2019
Protesters face off against police in Vrygrond
Residents call for an end to shack demolitions
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 7 October 2019
Dunoon: the long battle between the taxi operators and the City of Cape Town
Fight over whether operators who exited the industry should be licensed to come back
News | 7 October 2019
Art centre pressured to remove painting by murderer
Display of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s work raises debate about freedom of expression versus dignity of family of a murdered sex worker
By Zoë Postman
News | 7 October 2019
Security guard wage negotiations deadlocked
Unions reject offer of 5% increase
By Gaby Ndongo
News | 4 October 2019
New social grant system hurts the elderly, study finds
Long queues, no toilets: the closure of the old paypoints leaves pensioners in the lurch
News | 4 October 2019
Wheelchair user Nonkululeko Dziweni has to wait for two people to take her to the toilet in a mall one kilometre away
Buffalo City mayor hears Mdantsane residents’ complaints
News | 4 October 2019