South Africa|Western Cape

Cape Town’s polluted vleis costing jobs

Sewage spills are damaging local businesses and international tourism

Fishers march against lobster quota

Minister Barbara Creecy agrees to some of their demands

Church calls on religious organisations to support vaccination

Give us better cops, say Mitchells Plain protesters

Residents of one of Cape Town’s largest townships demand better cops

Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog

Over 37,000 DNA specimens yet to be processed in the Western Cape alone

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”

Shockingly bad service at Home Affairs as queues begin at 2am

Minister says the problem is being addressed

Undocumented people can now get Covid vaccines - in some areas

Provincial pilot programmes are underway but details are vague

Police use stun grenades to break up Cape Town housing protest

This followed a raid of the Woodstock Hospital occupation earlier on Friday