South Africa

Strike continues at Gqeberha automobile plant as union demands 100% wage increase

NUMSA says First Automobile Works must pay automobile manufacturers’ rates not Motor Industry Bargaining Council rates

Debate: Should SA’s cricketers have to take the knee?

Here’s a summary of the arguments

Survivors of apartheid violations sleep outside Constitutional Court

They want government to pay them reparations they believe are owed to them

Protests erupt after child electrocuted by illegal connection

Residents of Lingelihle and Greenfields in Gqeberha say they won’t be voting on Monday

Grant beneficiaries are paying R100 of their R350 to jump the queue

“We are not forcing anyone to pay the money. We are creating jobs for ourselves”

Local recyclers win global award

Two billion people around the globe don’t have their waste collected, and only 10% of waste is recycled in South Africa.

These villagers threatened not to vote if their road wasn’t fixed, so the municipality sent a truck. But the truck broke the water pipes the villagers had laid

Protesters tell IntsikaYethu mayor he’s no longer welcome

Three terrible local election campaigns

Save the Children sounds the alarm over food crisis facing immigrant children

Letter to Department of Social Development still unanswered after more than a year

Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog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

Municipality in breach of court order to clear dumpsites

Informal dumping sites were meant to have been cleaned up weeks ago

Vital Concourt judgment on warrantless searches

Case arises out of “degrading and invasive” raids on “poor and vulnerable” communities in downtown Johannesburg

Unemployed mothers and caregivers struggle to access Covid-19 grant

Since 1 July receiving a child support grant should not exclude one from getting the R350 Covid-19 grant

Covid-19 testing is too expensive and too difficult in South Africa

Our current approach is probably costing lives

Immigrants in Gqeberha say they live in fear after Cele and Mbalula’s remarks

“They came here to fan xenophobia” says informal trader

Striking steel workers to return to duty by Monday

Unions agree to three-year increases and will be back paid from 1 July 2021