IPID a no-show in Petrus Miggels police assault probe
Investigator has still not returned to the scene of the assault or interviewed key witnesses, according to Miggels’ family
News | 10 June 2020
Defamation case aims to censor activists, says Budlender
Case has begun in Cape High Court involving three environmental lawyers and three activists who were critical of mines in Xolobeni and Lutzville
By John Yeld
Law | 10 June 2020
Homeless immigrants secure winter shelter
But a couple of dozen others still live in Cape Town park
By James Stent
News | 10 June 2020
R14m defamation case between Australian miners and critics will make legal history
Defendants argue this is a ‘SLAPP’ suit
By John Yeld
Law | 8 June 2020
Family left without breadwinner after methanol poisoning deaths
Six men from Masiphumelele died last week after drinking homemade beer they bought
News | 8 June 2020
Homeless sleep outside “incomplete” City shelter
City says group living outside the Culemborg shelter site is hampering its completion
By Lucas Nowicki and James Stent
News | 5 June 2020
Covid-19: Mother fears for disabled daughter’s life
Woman with debilitating co-morbidities lives with five people in a shack that has no toilet
Brief | 5 June 2020
Life in a shack when you’re in a wheelchair
Every day Nonceba Siyobi sits in the doorway of her home hoping a passerby will help her to the nearest toilet
News | 4 June 2020
“We want to love the police, but they don’t want to love or respect us”
Picket held outside Parliament in solidarity with US protests against police brutality
News | 3 June 2020