Government funding delay causes vital insect research unit to close
“Our organisation was subsidising a lot of work in the hope that the tender would come through, and it just hasn’t”
By Liezl Human
Science | 22 October 2021
Shockingly bad service at Home Affairs as queues begin at 2am
Minister says the problem is being addressed
News | 21 October 2021
Undocumented people can now get Covid vaccines - in some areas
Provincial pilot programmes are underway but details are vague
By James Stent
News | 21 October 2021
Police use stun grenades to break up Cape Town housing protest
This followed a raid of the Woodstock Hospital occupation earlier on Friday
News | 15 October 2021
Bus transformed into mobile classroom for learners in Langa
The 42-seater Atlas Digibus has laptops, two teaching stations, and Wi-Fi for online teaching programmes like coding
Brief | 15 October 2021
Cape Town home owners, fed up with City’s lack of action, pay to house homeless
Residents of houses on the border of Van Riebeeck Park made a plan to cover the cost of accomodating the people living in the park - for now
By Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons
News | 14 October 2021
Court dismisses bid to have judge removed in Cape Town eviction case
Human Rights Commission wants Anti-Land Invasion Unit declared unlawful
By Liezl Human
News | 12 October 2021
Court rules that District Six eviction was unlawful
People do not choose to live in a public parking area out of malice or wilfulness but out of desperation and need, says judge
Law | 11 October 2021
Matriculant petitions for stateless youths to get into universities
She is among many South African-born children with immigrant parents struggling to get identification documents
News | 7 October 2021