Protesters call for CCMA budget cuts to be reversed
Workers coming to the CCMA for help are often told to lodge complaints online
Brief | 21 April 2021
UCT fire: students tell how they grabbed textbooks and laptops and fled
“Some people didn’t have shoes on, others ran out in pyjamas”
By Liezl Human and Marecia Damons
News | 21 April 2021
New attempt to force Home Affairs to obey court orders
Asylum seekers have struggled with documents since 2012 when Home Affairs closed its Cape Town refugee office
News | 20 April 2021
“We’re forgotten here”: rubbish is piling up in the little settlement of Riemvasmaak
City of Cape Town says refuse is collected weekly
News | 20 April 2021
Community health workers confront Mkhize with memorandum of demands
“What can we do with a R3,500 stipend? We have to send our kids to school and pay rent”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 20 April 2021
Refugee protest leaders deported
Remaining protesters given a choice: reintegrate or repatriate
News | 19 April 2021
Groundview: The Cape Town fire is an urgent reminder to offer solutions to homeless people
If people are chased away, they are likely to return until a solution is found to the problem that prompted them to move there in the first place
GroundView | 19 April 2021
Video: Fire destroys Cape Town landmarks
Jagger library, which contains thousands of precious artworks, archives and books, has been reduced to rubble
Video | 19 April 2021
In photos: the grim aftermath of Cape Town’s fire
Flames destroy buildings, monuments and precious archives
By Ashraf Hendricks, James Stent and Nathan Geffen
Photo | 19 April 2021