South Africa

Social housing set to be built at Salt River Market this year

Funding is secured, but about 50 families living in an informal settlement still need to be relocated

Raising revenue from alien invasives

A pilot project in the Overberg aims to produce useful agricultural products using cleared invasive plants

Patients wait four hours for an ambulance in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Rural hospitals’ allocated ambulances park 130 to 150km away

City of Cape Town must rebuild homes, demand protesters

Their shacks were demolished because they were built on sewer pipes in need of urgent maintenance

Weaving mats for survival in rural KwaZulu-Natal

The Zikhali family have always made traditional mats, but hope their youngest daughter will have other options

Protesters express solidarity with Palestine Action hunger strikers

“It is a grotesque irony that the law should be used to criminalise opposition to genocide rather than genocide itself,” says South African Jews for a Free Palestine

Vandals delay urgent Khayelitsha sewerage maintenance

New homes for families living above sewer pipes have been destroyed

Future of SRD grant uncertain, says Treasury

Universal Basic Income Coalition says government’s proposals to link the grant to employment-related conditions could exclude eligible beneficiaries

In photos: Iconic minstrels entertain Cape Town