Brief
People in Kariega queue for hours to collect water after devastating storm
Gift of the Givers has been delivering hundreds of litres of water daily and set up 12 soup kitchens in the township of KwaNobuhle.
Brief | 7 June 2024
First sitting of new Parliament will be at the Cape Town International Convention Centre
The new National Assembly will not be complete until February 2026
Brief | 6 June 2024
Sibanye-Stillwater miners who staged underground protest resurface in Rustenburg
They staged a sit-in strike over unpaid employee share ownership scheme funds. But the company says they do not qualify yet.
Brief | 6 June 2024
Over 1,000 shack dwellers displaced by Tongaat tornado
People are being housed in three large tents
Brief | 6 June 2024
“Tightrope” walk for villagers fetching water
In Richmond Farm residents have to do a balancing act to fetch water from a municipal ablution block
Brief | 3 June 2024
Protesters dump faeces at newly built houses in Kariega
They claim they should be allowed to move into the houses. But the municipality says they’re not the rightful beneficiaries.
Brief | 1 June 2024
TotalEnergies will destroy our livelihoods say small scale fishers
South African fishers joined a picket outside the company’s AGM in France last week
By Liezl Human
Brief | 31 May 2024
Court orders Gauteng government to pay children’s homes subsidies by Friday afternoon
The order gives Epworth Children’s Homes and Bethany House Trust a “lifeline” until the end of September
Brief | 31 May 2024
Violence erupts in Philippi on the eve of the elections
Protesters burn tyres, block roads, stone cars and set a bus alight. The car in which independent candidate Zackie Achmat was driving was shot at.
Brief | 28 May 2024