“If financial constraints were an issue, the respondents should have played open cards,” says judge
Law | 26 May 2020
SASSA says it’s only accepting online applications for the Covid-19 Relief Grant
News | 26 May 2020
The release of 19,000 low-risk inmates is a bold and necessary step to save lives
By Sasha Gear and Doreen Gaura
Opinion | 26 May 2020
City says Culemborg site will accommodate 96 of the estimated 180 homeless people now living under the overpass
By James Stent and Lucas Nowicki
Brief | 25 May 2020
Lockdown regulations stop or intimidate charities’ food handouts
Law | 25 May 2020
The National Lotteries Commission has refused to disclose its beneficiaries. But we found them
By Raymond Joseph and Anton van Zyl
News | 25 May 2020
Leeuwkop trial inmates “subjected daily to the control of the people they are suing for torture”
By Zoë Postman
News | 25 May 2020
Judge says government “ought to be hanging their heads in shame”
Brief | 22 May 2020
“People are dealing with blood. They cannot work without gloves.”
Brief | 22 May 2020
But leading scientist comes out in defence of MRC president
By Liezl Human and Nathan Geffen
News | 22 May 2020
“Our electricity boxes trip and only start to work the following day” says RDP homeowner in Mfuleni
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 22 May 2020
The City has promised to send a team to resolve issues of sanitation in Mkhondeni
Brief | 22 May 2020
The battle to find out which criteria are used by the City of Cape Town
By James Stent
News | 22 May 2020
“I feel for her. If it was someone else, they would never accept what we are doing.”
Brief | 22 May 2020
But beware: soothsaying has a checkered history
By Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen
Analysis | 22 May 2020
The line outside the offices in Long Street has been snaking for days
Photos by Ashraf Hendricks
News | 21 May 2020
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