Brief

Ask a sex worker

Sex Workers’ Rights Day commemorated on Grand Parade

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Brief | 3 March 2017

Fed-up with waiting, residents of informal settlement sort out their own water supply

Santini community in Butterworth remain without electricity or sanitation

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Brief | 3 March 2017

Angry residents stone fire engines for “being late”

Phumani Village residents say firefighters arrived after the community already had control of the blaze

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Brief | 1 March 2017

No learning at Mseki Primary School until department answers demands

If this is what it takes to get equal and better education, so be it – parent

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Brief | 28 February 2017

Zimbabwean police spike motorists

Officials use dangerous method to stop traffic offenders

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Brief | 28 February 2017

Thousands of furniture workers closer to being paid

Payout approved but still plenty of red tape

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Brief | 28 February 2017

School withdraws xenophobic letter

“If any foreign child arrives here on Monday we will phone the police …” - Eastleigh Primary letter to parents

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Brief | 27 February 2017

“We are packed like sardines” say protesters at Gugulethu school

Parents and schoolchildren join teachers’ protest against overcrowding and unpaid salaries at Mseki Primary

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Brief | 27 February 2017

Home Affairs sued over sex description

Three transgender women and their spouses seek to compel Home Affairs to amend the national population register, their birth certificates, and issue new IDs.

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Brief | 23 February 2017

Spar protester appears in court

Community turns out in numbers to offer support

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Brief | 23 February 2017

Finance Minister announces 9% boost in social grant spending

Old age grant to rise R90 to R1,600 a month

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Brief | 22 February 2017

Europe’s rubbish cleared in Nyanga

Mounds of garbage uncollected since December removed after residents agree to use City database

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Brief | 22 February 2017

Two lecturers suspended over homophobic taunts

Blade Nzimande says “Constitution is absolutely clear” on discrimination

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Brief | 21 February 2017

Police fire rubber bullets at Spar protesters

Residents say retailer has fenced off pathway to taxi rank

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Brief | 20 February 2017

Registration to resume on all WSU campuses

Student leaders and Walter Sisulu University management reach agreement

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Brief | 15 February 2017

Fisantekraal residents want to build their own RDP homes

March to Parliament to protest against receiving Garden City houses

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Brief | 15 February 2017