South Africa|Western Cape

Immigrant children use art to show how prejudice hurts

“I have never been to the DRC. I speak Sesotho fluently and a bit of Afrikaans but I am treated very differently by my peers.”

Cape Town’s polluted vleis costing jobs

Sewage spills are damaging local businesses and international tourism

Fishers march against lobster quota

Minister Barbara Creecy agrees to some of their demands

Church calls on religious organisations to support vaccination

Give us better cops, say Mitchells Plain protesters

Residents of one of Cape Town’s largest townships demand better cops

Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog

Over 37,000 DNA specimens yet to be processed in the Western Cape alone

Government funding delay causes vital insect research unit to close

“Our organisation was subsidising a lot of work in the hope that the tender would come through, and it just hasn’t”

Shockingly bad service at Home Affairs as queues begin at 2am

Minister says the problem is being addressed

Undocumented people can now get Covid vaccines - in some areas

Provincial pilot programmes are underway but details are vague

Police use stun grenades to break up Cape Town housing protest

This followed a raid of the Woodstock Hospital occupation earlier on Friday

Bus transformed into mobile classroom for learners in Langa

The 42-seater Atlas Digibus has laptops, two teaching stations, and Wi-Fi for online teaching programmes like coding

Cape Town home owners, fed up with City’s lack of action, pay to house homeless

Residents of houses on the border of Van Riebeeck Park made a plan to cover the cost of accomodating the people living in the park - for now

Court dismisses bid to have judge removed in Cape Town eviction case

Human Rights Commission wants Anti-Land Invasion Unit declared unlawful

Court rules that District Six eviction was unlawful

People do not choose to live in a public parking area out of malice or wilfulness but out of desperation and need, says judge

Matriculant petitions for stateless youths to get into universities

She is among many South African-born children with immigrant parents struggling to get identification documents

Zandvlei opens for boating after sewage scare

But Rietvlei and Zeekoevlei are still closed