South Africa

Dunoon’s potholed sewage-filled roads

City says it cannot maintain the streets due to continued unrest and threats to contractors

“Anti-social behaviour” could soon disqualify you from renting from the City

Public comment on draft housing allocation policy open till 21 July

New LGBTQI+ draft guidelines for schools critically flawed say education activists

Western Cape Education Department is evaluating comments on its Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Guidelines

Community health care workers protest in Khayelitsha

They are demanding to be integrated into the health department

Raising an autistic child in a shack

“He once disappeared and it gave us a fright. Now I have to stay and watch him all the time.”

Lockdown in pictures - Day 104: Line of duty

Judge rebukes Cape Town refugee centre

DRC asylum seeker was not given adequate reasons for refusal of application

Three months in prison for trying to recycle waste during lockdown

Reclaimers finally released from prison in Tshwane

Leaders of Bobani land occupation flee settlement

“We called them the Mugabes because they refused to step down”

Truck drivers protest against employment of immigrants

Civic organisations warn of risks of xenophobia

Covid-19: water protesters target N2

Eastern Cape protesters say they can’t wash their hands as directed without clean water

Glenn Sandler was 36 years old and healthy. Covid-19 plunged him into a coma for three weeks

Cape Town man slowly recovering after weeks on a ventilator

Lockdown in pictures - Day 103: Screening

Old age home staff protest after patient deaths

Staff refused to work after 11 of them tested positive for Covid-19 at a home in Uitenhage

Shack with a swimming pool and Table Mountain view

But Viziyalo Madola’s community still shares just one toilet

Cash-strapped farm owner removed roof to force out farm dwellers

Owner says families broke agreement to leave made six years ago