South Africa

Fishers march against lobster quota

Minister Barbara Creecy agrees to some of their demands

Church calls on religious organisations to support vaccination

Out-of-work protesters claim labour department glitch prevents them from getting UIF

Former Ekhurhuleni employees threaten not to vote

Give us better cops, say Mitchells Plain protesters

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

Elections 2021: Mogale City in the dumps

High unemployment, crumbling public facilities and failing infrastructure are commonplace in Krugersdorp

Elections 2021: where are the promises to our children?

Bureaucracy is suffocating our crèches. Local governments can do something about it.

Families living in Tsolo forest say they won’t be voting on Monday

The settlement of about 1,000 households has almost no basic services

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