Khayelitsha Cookies prefers hiring people to using machines
From just two staff in 2005 to almost 80 women now, the hand baked cookie business has risen from humble beginnings
Photo Essay | 18 August 2023
18 months later, East London flood victims still haven’t been housed
Nonceba Pamla lost her daughter in the floods as well as her home. She is still waiting for the house she says she was promised
News | 20 June 2023
Protesters call for taverns to be shut down in central East London
“We don’t want a repeat of Enyobeni”
News | 1 June 2023
School land occupiers demand relocation to serviced sites
East London shack dwellers say they won’t move unless it is somewhere with water, electricity and toilets
News | 26 May 2023
Sex workers tell minister police rape, rob and abuse them
Bill to decriminalise sex work released
Brief | 9 December 2022
Army of fake companies used to defraud the Lottery
Documents and computers seized in raid on Lottery’s East London office as dodgy scheme implicating a former board member is uncovered
News | 17 November 2022
More than 20 families share one pit toilet in this East London settlement
The municipality has plans to relocate them once suitable land is identified
Brief | 8 September 2022
Domestic worker who accused her employer of rape has waited four years for justice
DNA test backlog delays prosecution
News | 18 August 2022
For Unakho Kewana, loadshedding is life-threatening
East London 18-year-old can’t breathe properly without her oxygen device
Brief | 6 July 2022