Santonio Jonkers let out a sigh of frustration as he was told for the third time that his court case was postponed, this time till next year.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 13 November 2014
Several Cape Town landmarks have been defaced in recent weeks. Here members of The Tokolos Stencil Collective explain why they have done this.
Members of the Tokolos Stencil Collective
Opinion | 13 November 2014
A Khayelitsha housing project has gone bust amidst allegations of corruption. Beneficiaries are frustrated that they may not get their houses, or that problems with houses that have been built will not be fixed.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 13 November 2014
Long running tensions between City of Cape Town traffic authorities and the Vrygrond Taxi Association boiled over into a roadside beating of a taxi driver in Muizenberg on Tuesday.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 13 November 2014
Members of the Treatment Action Campaign and residents marched today in Nyanga to protest about poor health services in Nyanga and surrounding townships.
Zintle Swana
News | 12 November 2014
Over a million orphans and abused, neglected, and abandoned children in South Africa are falling through the cracks of an overburdened foster care system.
Joyce Xi
Feature | 12 November 2014
In 1993, it would have taken the average labourer 40 years to earn what the average executive director of a top company in South Africa earned in a year.
Alide Dasnois
News | 12 November 2014
Forbes Grant Senior Secondary School is not safe. The flimsy fence structure around the school is easily breakable. On the school’s perimeter, the fence has gaping holes in many places. In some parts, there is no fence at all.
Daniel Linde
Opinion | 12 November 2014
A year ago, Ntombikayise Matyumza of Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape started a Facebook page aimed at gay and lesbian youth. Today she has more than 14,000 followers across the country.
Pharie Sefali
News | 12 November 2014
The very public scrap between former trade union leaders John Copelyn and Marcel Golding, both now billionaire business people, has raised a crucial question for the labour movement: the role of union investment companies.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 12 November 2014
Disabled Site C resident Vincent Gaelejwe, 43, lives in a one-roomed shack and has nowhere to keep the portable toilet supplied by the City of Cape Town. Instead, he limps to his neighbour’s house every day to use the portable toilet there.
Zintle Swana
News | 11 November 2014
Following the Khayelitsha Inquiry into Policing, a series of meetings are being organised between SAPS and the Khayelitsha community. One took place at the University of Cape Town's middle campus on the weekend.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 11 November 2014
“We would like the government to legislate a national minimum wage of R4,500 so that the private sector cannot get away with murder,” Langa resident Fezile Olifant told a parliamentary hearing on the national minimum wage in Gugulethu at the weekend.
Katy Scott
News | 11 November 2014
UAkhona ufunda kwibanga lesibhozo. Njengabo bonke abalingane bakhe baseklasini abaninzi, usoloko ephoswa kukuya esikolweni xa esexesheni ngenxa yokuba usapho lwakhe alukwazi ukumthengela iiphedi. Xa kufuneka abhale uvavanyo, usebenzisa ikawusi, utsho.
Pharie Sefali
News | 11 November 2014
Four activists and farm workers, arrested two years ago while marching in the Koo valley outside Montagu, have been acquitted.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 10 November 2014
Zimbabweans whose permits expire on 31 December and whose applications for new permits have not yet been processed face a difficult decision about whether to return home for Christmas - and risk trouble at the border on their return to South Africa.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 10 November 2014
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