Brief

Black Sash petitions social development minister to oversee SASSA

The civil society organisation lists numerous issues with social grant payments it says need to be addressed urgently

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Brief | 14 June 2023

Former activist organisation manager pleads guilty to fraud

SJC’s Xolani Klaas enters into a plea agreement after defrauding the organisation of more than R730,000

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Brief | 13 June 2023

Ninth suspect in Thabo Bester escape appears in court

Zanda Moyo will join eight others in the criminal trial on 20 June

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Brief | 13 June 2023

Diep River occupiers say they’ll move if City provides acceptable accommodation

119 Families served with notice to vacate land on the Diep River floodplain

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Brief | 13 June 2023

Exhibition imagines an alternative future for an inclusive Cape Town

Residents of Cissie Gool House have co-designed an exhibit at the Cape Institute for Architecture

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Brief | 8 June 2023

Hands off Antarctic, demand protesters

Door to the global fridge should be locked, say activists

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Brief | 5 June 2023

Only four police vans for 57 villages in Tsomo, Eastern Cape

Community marches to police station and magistrate court to demand better policing

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Brief | 2 June 2023

Ficksburg community leaders arrested during clashes over land occupation

The Setsoto Local Municipality has obtained an interim order preventing any new shacks from being erected

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Brief | 1 June 2023

R15-million Lehae taxi rank destroyed by vandals

The rank was left abandoned because of conflict between taxi operators

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Brief | 31 May 2023