Reconsidering South Africa’s approach to waste pickers
Waste pickers must be integrated into the formal waste management sector, says researcher
News | 22 February 2019
Woman told to go to Zimbabwe to get her South African-born child’s visas
She faces prohibitive costs and may lose her job
Brief | 22 February 2019
Eastern Cape residents must make way for taxi rank
Second time in four years that the people of Bhekela informal settlement will be moved
Brief | 22 February 2019
Workers in finance department down tools in Pietermaritzburg
Municipal employees say they work in terrible conditions and their office equipment and computers do not function
News | 21 February 2019
School children block road to Alice
Five weeks into the school year and some classes have not started at Kuyasa Senior Secondary
Brief | 21 February 2019
Toilets overflow and taps run dry in Enkanini
Residents vow to continue protesting until the problem is fixed
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 February 2019
Immigrants targeted in Alexandra housing battle
Vigilantes accused of throwing families out of RDP housing
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.
Feature | 21 February 2019
Stats SA’s confusing mining employment statistics
Quarterly Labour Force Survey is the definitive source for most sectors, but not for mining
Analysis | 21 February 2019
Expropriation Bill: it’s rural black people who are most at risk
Vulnerable communities have lost their land to the state and mining companies in the past decade
Law | 21 February 2019