South Africa

Creecy upholds appeal against giant West Coast wind farm

Wake effect impact on a neighbouring wind farm should have been assessed

Showdown in Dunoon over toilet companies

Toilets cleaned free of charge by Mshengu Toilet Hire as Dunoon residents ban Sanitech from operating

Relocation of 1,500 Dunoon families postponed until at least next year

Neighbouring business owners object to relocation, say there are better alternatives

Students shutdown college over NSFAS payments

NSFAS to visit the campus this week to respond to students’ concerns

Police are not being held accountable for child killings, watchdog records reveal

39 children died at the hands of police or in custody between April 2012 and March 2018

After the drought: Cape Town’s gushing water

Berg River’s sluice open, as dams fill up

Day Zero in water stricken Mandela Bay

“We are in big trouble” says resident as dam levels for the metro fall below 19%

IT crash blamed for leaving children hungry

Department of Justice says its working to resolve 129 outstanding payments

Over five million children are not getting their school meals

Department of Basic Education says situation will improve with schools returning

Senior judge alleged to have ordered hit on colleague

Online petition on evicting domestic abusers got court ruling wrong

Judges emphasise that procedural fairness must be upheld

How Western Cape will check for a future Covid-19 surge

Large survey of pregnant women and people with HIV suggests a lot of Capetonians have already been infected

“I don’t want my daughters to end up like me” says sugarcane worker

Nobuhle Mkhize with her five daughters and six grandchildren face the poverty trap

Violence in prisons is increasing. The prisons watchdog needs more power to stop it

A Constitutional Court decision, awaited since March, will be crucial for the safety of inmates and wardens

Illegal occupations affect us all, says Mayco member

Over 300 land occupations in the Cape Town metro since January

Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days

NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase