South Africa

Lockdown in pictures - Day 124: Fish for sale

OUTA lays fraud and racketeering complaint over Lottery grants

“NLC officials are intentionally turning a blind eye and are thus complicit and criminally liable”

Protest over toilets turns violent in Uitenhage

Project to build toilets for Bobani Village was halted by internal politics

24 arrested in protest against Pietermaritzburg ward councillor

“I was chosen by people of ward 29 not by a few individuals” says ANC’s Spha Madlala

Questions for a sex worker

Constance Mathe explains why she believes her work should not be criminalised

Municipality hands over RDP houses without water, toilets or electricity

Beneficiaries of the housing project say they’ve been battling since they moved in four years ago

Cloud computing to help save Cape’s unique fynbos

SA team won a Google Earth grant to protect precious floral kingdom

Lockdown in pictures - Day 123: Craftsmanship

Loadshedding “unavoidable” after substation blows, says mayor

Power restored in Pietermaritzburg community after protesters bring area to standstill over five-day blackout

From quack claims about Covid-19 to outright forgery

NanoWorks presents fraudulent NRCS and SABS certificates

How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations

Here are seven proposals

Luyolo land claimants to wait another three years for housing project

“For years people showed us plans for housing then disappeared without anything being done. Many of us had lost hope”

Community leaders oppose Makhaza occupation

“I have been on the housing database for years, but I still have no house” says occupier

Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics

Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee

Lockdown in pictures - Day 122: Worship

SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest

Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement