“It’s hunger, my sister,” says Brakpan looter
Most Tsakane shops have been gutted
News | 14 July 2021
Gauteng clinics looted and destroyed
“What was not taken, was broken,” says doctor
News | 13 July 2021
Refugees frustrated by Home Affairs online renewal system
Officials accused of exploiting asylum seekers’ desperation at the Pretoria refugee centre
By Kimberly Mutandiro and Tariro Washinyira
News | 13 July 2021
Alexandra was already “a ticking time-bomb” says SAHRC report
As protest returns to Alexandra, activists say nothing has changed after 2019 protests
News | 13 July 2021
“I don’t know what I did to deserve this” says looted shop owner
Sporadic looting and protests continue in Alexandra, Johannesburg
News | 12 July 2021
Gauteng government takes vaccination drive to SASSA queues
“We’ve been using vaccines for years. I don’t understand why people are afraid of this vaccine” says Soweto pensioner
Brief | 7 July 2021
A thriving trade has sprung up around informal mining in Gauteng
Immigrant traders supply miners with everything from water to socks
News | 7 July 2021
Video: The death of Ishmael Gama at the hands of Gauteng police
More than a year after his death, and months after the police watchdog implicated eight officers in murder, police management has not acted.
Video | 7 July 2021
Equal Education goes back to court to force government to feed hungry school children
Minister Motshekga and eight provincial education MECs in contempt of court, says NGO
Law | 5 July 2021