Teaching drama in Ndevana
Mbulelo Nkwali and Zolani Seyisi had one idea when they founded Suppermix in 2008 in King William’s Town’s Ndevana settlement: to take young people off the streets. Today the film and drama company performs at weddings, church events, and the Buffalo City carnival.
Siphesihle Matyila
News | 25 September 2015
Mdantsane construction workers strike
Construction workers in Walter Sisulu in Mdantsane are refusing to work on the RDP houses being built by the municipality, claiming they are being underpaid.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Brief | 17 September 2015
Making bricks for a living
A group of young men from Ndevana location near King William’s Town have found a way to put food on their families’ tables: making bricks.
Siphesihle Matyila
News | 17 September 2015
We’ll keep fighting, say Port Elizabeth protesters
Angry residents of an informal settlement in Port Elizabeth who took to the streets on Monday have vowed to continue with their protests until they are moved to better housing nearby.
Joseph Chirume
News | 16 September 2015
This place stinks, say Duncan Village residents
“Not only does this place stink, pigs eat here as well, making the place smell even more," says Sakhumzi Kholisile of Khayelitsha informal settlement in Duncan Village, East London.
Siphesihle Matyila
News | 10 September 2015
Angry Mdantsane residents protest quality of RDP houses
Residents of Walter Sisulu in Mdantsane protested on Tuesday, claiming the RDP houses they were due to move into had not been built properly.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 9 September 2015
How poverty interferes with dreams: Andiswa Nkuphe’s story
Andiswa Nkuphe lives with her eight siblings. Their house is a shipping container. Despite good school results and ambitions of becoming a nurse, she has to take care of her siblings, because their mother has been sick for almost two years and she's been in hospital since January this year.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 8 September 2015
Buffalo City janitors have to pay for their own toilet cleaning materials
Janitors employed by the Buffalo City municipality in East London to clean toilets say they are forced to pay for cleaning materials and gloves from their own salaries.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Feature | 3 September 2015
South Africa’s 5 million working poor
Every day millions across South Africa do arduous work in jobs that cannot keep them and their dependants out of poverty. These are the “working poor” and according to a new study, there are about five and half million of them.
Gilad Isaacs
Opinion | 25 August 2015