South Africa|Western Cape

Climate activists picket at Parliament - accuse COP26 of excluding African farmers

“If there is no drastic change we won’t be able to farm with cattle and maize in a few years time”

Toddler airlifted to hospital after falling into uncovered drain

Local farmworker movement plans to lay charges against farmer

Scathing report released on Cape Town’s homeless policies

The more than 400-page report was compiled by The Inkathalo Conversations and commissioned by the City in 2020

Makhaza finally gets a temporary police station

Police say construction of a permanent police station still on the cards for Khayelitsha

Fire victims wait three years for SASSA disaster grants

Some families have still not been paid out after the October 2019 fire in Vygieskraal in Cape Town

Immigrant children use art to show how prejudice hurts

“I have never been to the DRC. I speak Sesotho fluently and a bit of Afrikaans but I am treated very differently by my peers.”

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Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog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

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