South Africa

Bedsores and maggots: Ikamva Labantu’s shocking findings on elder abuse

Research report released into neglect and abuse of older people in Cape Town’s poor communities

Mister Sweet workers shut down labour department

They claim that an inspector left a Mister Sweet factory with “a lot of packets of sweets”

Community health workers picket outside Labour Court

NEHAWU has brought a case to compel the health department to give the workers permanent jobs

Ivaldo Macamo lost his leg when the George building collapsed. He is still waiting for compensation

Not one of the families we spoke to has received any payout

Teacher posts: Western Cape education department quizzed in Parliament

“We’re not retrenching teachers. We’re reducing posts,” says WCED head

Parliament debates report on Thabo Bester’s prison escape

“There’s public expectation that the parliamentary process we started in the previous term will be concluded,” says MP

Shacks and schools ruined as storm ravages Musina

A shack was blown several metres

Court bid to declare social grant regulations unconstitutional

About 8-million people are being denied the R370 SRD grant according to the Institute for Economic Justice

Disability grant applicant collapses: SASSA responds to our story

African Penguins now officially “critically endangered”

The bird is facing rapid population decline from competition with commercial fisheries and climate-mediated shifts in prey populations

Opposition to open cast coal mining in Midvaal

For years residents have been objecting to the Springfield and Vlakfontein mining project

South Africans exposed to high levels of lead

In 2022, over 700-tonnes of lead chromates were imported into the country from India alone

Government must protect legitimate SRD grant applicants, say activists

Universal Basic Income Coalition say fraudulent applications only represent a “small proportion of applications”

Four dead in Cape Town shack fires

We are happy to have survived, says Khayelitsha shop owner

Angry community removes people occupying railway buildings

This followed outrage in Bethlehem, Free State, after a 17-year-old learner was raped while walking home from school last week

Picket held in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

The SA government is submitting evidence to the International Court of Justice to prove Israel is committing genocide in Gaza