News
How women’s shelters are coping with lockdown
“We couldn’t handle each other” in a small home
By Elna Schütz
News | 5 May 2020
Langa hostel residents say social distancing is not an option
City does not have money to upgrade hostel this financial year
News | 4 May 2020
Covid-19: Private hospitals close doors after staff test positive
Closing hospitals is “last resort”
By Elna Schütz
News | 4 May 2020
Covid-19 concerns at homeless camp after officers test positive
Up to a week after being tested, dozens of people staying at the City of Cape Town’s Strandontein camp don’t have their results
By James Stent and Lucas Nowicki
News | 1 May 2020
Details of two additional alleged lockdown killings by police revealed
Police were accused of killing five people during the enforcement of the first three weeks of Covid-19 lockdown
News | 30 April 2020
Covid-19: Banned from collecting firewood, grandmother cooks over a fire of plastic bottles
“The food tastes horrible and the smoke makes us cough,” says Mona Sias of Cookhouse
News | 30 April 2020
“Coronavirus is the last thing to worry about while looking for gold deep inside a mine”
Informal miners say they are continuing operations amid lockdown
News | 30 April 2020
Covid-19: Increase in social grants not good enough, say critics
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
News | 29 April 2020
Beaches at risk: Report reveals alarming pollution along Cape Town’s coast
Popular beaches are among 31 polluted sites, long-awaited water quality report shows
News | 29 April 2020