Brief

Protesters block busy Vereeniging road to complain about stalled housing project

Kanana Park residents from Thulamntwana township brought traffic to a standstill on Monday

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Brief | 26 March 2024

Beating a thousand drums for Palestine

This year’s Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival focused on the war in Gaza

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Brief | 25 March 2024

“Cleaning and greening” workers dump rubbish on City Hall doorsteps in Gqeberha

Their stipends were paid a week late by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs

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Brief | 22 March 2024

Durban residents protest for water on Human Rights Day

“How can we celebrate human rights without water?” asks protester

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Brief | 21 March 2024

Action threatened against unregistered school that charges R850 per month

“The owner … only cares about money, not the education of our children” says parent

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Brief | 21 March 2024

Activists call on government to declare TB a national health crisis

Though TB is preventable and treatable, more than 50,000 people died of it in South Africa in 2022

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Brief | 20 March 2024

Arrested Cathcart leader’s court appearance moved 120km away out of fear of protests

Mziwebongo Burwana was arrested during violent protests sparked by rumours that the Cathcart Hospital will be downgraded

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Brief | 20 March 2024

Vehicles set alight as protesters demand sanitation and water

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayco member promises action on stalled project

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Brief | 19 March 2024

Judge hospitalised after tribunal hearing against him

Judicial Service Commission tribunal is hearing allegations of misconduct and incompetence against high court judge Tshifhiwa Maumela

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Brief | 19 March 2024

Years of protests pay off as Eastern Cape village gets new high school

The R56-million Vukile Tshwete Senior Secondary has officially opened in Keiskammahoek after eight years of struggle

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Brief | 19 March 2024

Police whisk water minister Mchunu away from angry crowd in Musina

Residents were demanding a lasting and immediate solution to the area’s water crisis

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Brief | 18 March 2024

Congolese march to Parliament to draw attention to war at home

A number of local organisations joined the protest

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Brief | 18 March 2024

Dogs and their owners out in force to raise money for Khayelitsha clinic

Sea Point walk raises R45,000 for Mdzananda Animal Clinic

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Brief | 18 March 2024

Protesters call on SAFA to red card Israel

Palestine Solidarity Alliance calls for expulsion of Israeli Football Association from FIFA

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Brief | 18 March 2024

Housing activists frustrated by President Ramaphosa’s six-month silence on public land act

They have been demanding that government use the State Land Disposal Act of 1961 to rapidly free up land for housing

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Brief | 18 March 2024

1,330 houses in Mamelodi without electricity, some for seven years

City of Tshwane says it took over the project from the province before it could budget for it

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Brief | 15 March 2024