South Africa|Gauteng

Waste pickers create their own recycling centre

Talks to integrate informal waste reclaimers with the City of Johannesburg’s waste management have gone nowhere for three years

Zuma lawyer to represent Judge Makhubele at misconduct inquiry

Makhubele is accused of abetting state capture while she was chair of PRASA

Volunteers collect data to mitigate effects of global heating in Tshwane

About 16 local citizen scientists, led by members of Planact, have mapped the temperatures in several parts of Pretoria

Alexandra grannies trade knitting needles for boxing gloves

They attend boxing classes once a week as part of a project called GOGOBox

Picket outside Ghana High Commission over homophobic bill

Treatment Action Campaign calls on Ghana’s president to reject bill that will criminalise LGBTQ+ people

Wits students stage ‘sleepover’ protests

The university says its made 530 emergency beds available and has reopened applications to on-campus residences

Home Affairs minister takes Zimbabwean permit battle to the Constitutional Court

The High Court ruled against the minister and he failed in his appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal

Joburg residents march over water outages and unreliable electricity

The protesters say they are also fed up with illegal rubbish dumping and potholes in their streets

Anti-vaxxers thrashed in court

Application to stop Covid vaccine slammed as “manifestly unfair”, fatally defective and dismissed with costs by Pretoria High Court

NUMSA protests in support of suspended Putco workers

Putco concerned by how long CCMA process is taking

Doctor in Lottery circumcision scandal fails to challenge probe

Soweto households without electricity for seven months

Premier blames Eskom for delays

Joburg theatre puts democracy in the spotlight

Actors are getting school children to think about what leadership entails

Unemployed doctors march to Union Buildings

They are calling for the president to intervene and make sure medical professionals are employed

City of Tshwane mum on “investigation” into illegal suburb

Leeuwfontein developer and residents say the City has never contacted them

Bheki Cele accuses Randfontein protesters of being a construction mafia. But they say they just want jobs and their fair share

Eleven people to apply for bail after being arrested on 13 February