Medicine stockouts: contraceptives are the worst hit

Survey shows that many women cannot access the contraceptive injection

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News | 30 August 2022

This is not a broken bus. This is a classroom in an Eastern Cape school.

“This is an underperforming school and the Department of Education … are doing nothing about it”

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Brief | 30 August 2022

Meet Dunoon’s gardeners with disabilities

“Some have hands, some have legs and some have ideas”

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Brief | 30 August 2022

We travel to Harare with returning Zimbabweans

It’s an unhappy journey marked by xenophobia and an uncertain future

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News | 30 August 2022

Meet Makhanda’s self-taught pencil artist

Lubabalo Kosi captured the hearts of people in his community after winning a local government tourism competition

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Brief | 30 August 2022

Turn Sea Point plot into social housing, say activists

Two years after the Tafelberg sale was overturned, progress has stalled. Now the provincial government says it may want to use the land “in the public interest”.

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News | 30 August 2022

Delays in cleaners’ contracts leave toilets dirty and blocked

Nearly 400 households at Kliprand informal settlement in Gqeberha share these toilets

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News | 29 August 2022

Taxi drivers bully Centurion community into stopping protest

Olievenhoutbosch residents had blocked major roads in the area to demand housing and better services. This journalist was also assaulted by taxi drivers.

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Brief | 29 August 2022

Learners march to demand free sanitary pads

Team Free Sanitary Pads campaign has so far collected over 30,000 signatures to get government to improve menstrual health

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News | 29 August 2022

KZN south coast tourism threatened by water failures

Fed up Ugu residents say they are mustering to take legal action against the district municipality

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News | 29 August 2022

Mom wins court battle against medical scheme

Medihelp refused to cover cost of treating three-year-old’s rare medical condition

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Law | 29 August 2022

Mobile showers for homeless people: “mother of water” bus launched

“I just cried underneath the water,” says homeless woman after first hot shower in ages

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News | 26 August 2022

Delays with R350-grant payments expected

New regulations may mean August payments are late

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News | 26 August 2022

Farm workers in Robertson’s “dumping ground” call for better services

CSAAWU demands that Langeberg Municipality install taps, electricity and toilets for Oppiekoppie community

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Brief | 26 August 2022

Court’s message in Llandudno case: Don’t take matters into your own hands

Landlord’s conduct “reeks of a pattern of attempts to circumvent” the law says judge

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Law | 26 August 2022

Drakenstein Municipality appeals ruling on emergency housing

The municipality believes it has met its constitutional obligations to provide accommodation to people evicted from rural areas

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News | 26 August 2022