UWC students celebrate gay rights
On Monday student organisations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) launched an awareness week called "From the same soil."
Pharie Sefali
News | 16 October 2013
Citizenless Brian
What drives a 15-year-old boy to move to a neighbouring country on his own and without his guardian’s consent? Meet Brian Dlodlo, now a 20-year-old man from Zimbabwe who crossed to South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post as an unaccompanied minor in 2007. Brian has no identity papers. He is effectively the citizen of no country.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 16 October 2013
Empowerment through art
Hand in Hand Creatives (HHC) is a not-for-profit organisation (NPO) that aims to provide young people from disadvantaged communities with access to the creative arts through workshops, running outings, and planning festivals. The organisation believes that the arts can empower individuals and nurture self-respect.
Fergus Turner
News | 16 October 2013
Growing food in Cape Town’s homes
Local organisation SEED has pledged to make 100 homes in Cape Town more sustainable this year by encouraging residents to grow their own food and eventually achieve ‘food freedom’.
Delphine Pedeboy
News | 16 October 2013
Rocklands Primary School pioneers sustainability in education
It is a bright, sunny October morning in Mitchell’s Plain. At the Rocklands Urban Abundance Centre, situated on a strip of land next to Rocklands Primary School, volunteers are hard at work tending to the plants and seedlings in the tree nursery.
Delphine Pedeboy
News | 15 October 2013
Alexander Court, Parow: tenants say their lives are in danger.
Property owners and tenants of Alexander Court in Parow say they are being terrorised by drug lords and sex workers who trespass on their balconies.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 15 October 2013
The Gugulethu Seven remembered 27 years later
Mandla Mxinwa, Jabulani Miya, Themba Molefi, Christopher Piet, Zola Swelani, Zabonkwe Konile and Zandisile Mjobo -- the Gugulethu Seven -- will once again be honoured for the role they played in the struggle against the apartheid regime.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 October 2013
The strike wave and what it means
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said last week that if South Africa wants to achieve higher growth and cut unemployment “a social bargain” is needed that would pull together trade unions, business and the government to implement the NDP (National Development Plan). It also suggests that trade unions moderate wage demands and that the State implement its massive infrastructure spending plans. The IMF flagged "escalating labour tensions" as a "key domestic risk".
Jack Lewis
Opinion | 10 October 2013