Shelter came as a relief, says a 23-year-old, who used to sleep at a car wash
Brief | 20 April 2020
“We have suffered enough in the hall and now they want to finish us off here”
Brief | 19 April 2020
“I make my kids stay in my yard or lie in bed throughout the day”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 April 2020
Government accused of political posturing in support of a private developer rather than working with Heritage Western Cape
News | 18 April 2020
Villagers who come to town to shop have to wait hours for taxis to take them home
Brief | 18 April 2020
Cheslyn Wagenaar makes belts and sandals at his RDP home with offcuts of crocodile and ostrich skins
By Mpumi Kiva
Brief | 18 April 2020
NEHAWU meets with Dora Nginza hospital management to resolve complaints
Brief | 17 April 2020
Police minister “must act swiftly against the criminal elements in the SAPS”
News | 17 April 2020
Empolweni residents whose shacks were demolished during the lockdown can return to the land and rebuild
By James Stent
Brief | 17 April 2020
“Police are only concentrating on road blocks” complains shop owner
News | 17 April 2020
“An anxious man can do nothing else but stand on the streets and make a plan for his family to eat”
News | 17 April 2020
“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC
News | 17 April 2020
Judge explains reasons for ruling
Law | 17 April 2020
Civil society network feeding more than 1,300 children in Lavender Hill and surrounds
Text by Steve Kretzmann. Photos by Brenton Geach.
Feature | 17 April 2020
Basic income, food support, and an evictions freeze
By James Stent
News | 17 April 2020
We had an advantage over countries in the North “because we had the opportunity to observe them, the trajectory of their epidemic, their mistakes”
By Liezl Human
News | 16 April 2020
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