Street lights out on Lansdowne Road for years
The street lights on Lansdowne in Khayelitsha have not worked for years. After noticing a long portion of Lansdowne Road without working street lights, I interviewed people who walk along the road.
Nokubonga Yawa
News | 20 June 2012
Over 50,000 immigrants deported in 2010
A document called "Perils and Pitfalls – Migrants and Deportations in South Africa," recently released by People Against Suffering and Oppression, explains how the rights of refugees, children and black South Africans are infringed and abused.
By Tariro Washinyira
News | 20 June 2012
The Role of White Youth in South Africa’s Struggle Movements
This is a speech given by Doron Isaacs, director of Equal Education, at an Ndifuna Ukwazi seminar on 16 June.
Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 20 June 2012
Brother, I do not want to bury you. Get treated.
Leo Mbobi tells of his struggle to get his ill brother treated for HIV.
Leo Mbobi
Opinion | 20 June 2012
Documentary shows Sonke’s struggle
Marcus Low reviews a new documentary about the work of Sonke Gender Justice, You Can't Just Fold Your Arms.
Marcus Low
Opinion | 20 June 2012
Witnessing the difference between a South African and US school
The right to education will not be realised as long as there is such massive inequality between schools across the world.
Morgan Dzakowic
Opinion | 20 June 2012
Medicine and vaccine shortages across country
There have been many media reports of shortages of medicines to treat AIDS over the last few weeks. But the medicine shortages go beyond antiretrovirals and there are even shortages of vaccines.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 20 June 2012
HIV activists run Comrades Marathon
A group of activists from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) ran the Comrades Marathon on Sunday 4 June.
Veronica Washaya and Janine Fortuin
News | 12 June 2012
COSATU, Zille, Apartheid and the Youth Wage Subsidy
COSATU is facing an unprecedented onslaught. Is the federation, as Helen Zille claims, ‘the main roadblock in the road to job creation and redress’? And would ‘lowering the cost of employment’ be the ‘biggest single step towards solving the unemployment problem’?
Ilan Strauss and Doron Isaacs
Opinion | 12 June 2012