South Africa

Court bid to decriminalise sex work

The laws “have not deterred … the selling or buying of sex … and are not rationally capable of doing so. They merely create greater stigma and vulnerability among sex workers and violate their rights.”

Durban picketers demand accessible mental health services

About 100 people protested outside the city hall to mark World Mental Health Day on Thursday.

The Limpopo government mismanaged their money. But these workers are not giving up

Premier Phophi Ramathuba promised that former employees of the Great North Transport bus company would start receiving their unpaid pensions this week

Western Cape town “held to ransom” by cable theft syndicate

Repeated extended blackouts as electricity poles are cut down and cables stolen

How bureaucracy prevents people from getting houses

Supply isn’t coming close to meeting the demand for state-subsidised housing

Blind SA says Ramaphosa is shirking his constitutional obligations

Legal action taken to compel the President to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill into law

Minister says he won’t bow to pressure on the Lottery

How business can help end homelessness

Homelessness is a shared, fixable problem

Vhutshilo Mountain School offers lifeline to AIDS orphans

Limpopo school has been going strong for nearly 20 years

Relocation of Langa rail line occupiers delayed by regulations

Rezoning application to move people living next to the Central Line has taken more than a year

Vital water project halted because municipality failed to pay contractors

School where reservoir was being built blocks construction

Women dig their own pipeline after years of frustration with eThekwini water supply

Many families in Matikwe north of Durban were left out when pipes were installed

Heroin use has spread as prices plummet

South Africa’s central position in a drug smuggling route between West Asia and Europe plays a role

In this village some people say they drink just one cup of water a day

Water infrastructure was installed in uMsinga in KwaZulu-Natal years ago but has never worked

Africa Oil Week: Mantashe slams “foreign-funded” activists

Protests held against fossil-fuel industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Joburg’s water woes are self-inflicted

The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem