Criminalising cannabis use by children is unconstitutional, court rules
Court hears children are languishing for months in detention for trivial offences
Law | 3 August 2020
Hundreds protest in JHB against government’s response to Covid-19
“Their schemes and promises have only opened up avenues for corruption by the ANC and its supporters”
By Zoë Postman
News | 1 August 2020
Twenty arrested after shops of foreign nationals looted and torched
Human rights groups have criticised government’s inaction to deal with xenophobic attacks
News | 31 July 2020
Children born abroad with one South African parent have right to citizenship
Constitutional Court says that Home Affairs conduct is “brazenly incompetent”, intransigent, indifferent and inefficient
Law | 24 July 2020
COSAS shuts down schools in Alexandra
“Pure criminality” says Gauteng Education Department
Brief | 22 July 2020
Court finds that government failed to feed children
Education ministers must immediately roll out National Schools Nutrition Programme
Law | 17 July 2020
Johannesburg suburb donates “trikes” and uniforms to reclaimers
City says residents and organisations must work together to formalise reclaimers
By Zoë Postman
News | 17 July 2020
Eskom users, fined for bridging electricity, beg to be reconnected
In Orange Farm many residents have been disconnected for two years because they can’t pay the R6k remedial fee
News | 16 July 2020
Land occupation in Midvaal the work of a criminal syndicate, says City
Walkerville “Big Six” say land must be taken from whites and given to black people
News | 9 July 2020