Viewfinder: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality in SA
Public records, government data, whistleblowers and victim testimony have converged to show how crimes by police officers have not been investigated properly
Feature | 7 October 2019
Protesters face off against police in Vrygrond
Residents call for an end to shack demolitions
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 7 October 2019
Inanda residents close off roads in protest at power outage
Problem caused by cable theft, says councillor
By Musa Binda
Brief | 7 October 2019
Broken promises prompt Pietermaritzburg protest
Promised road construction hasn’t started
Brief | 7 October 2019
Dunoon: the long battle between the taxi operators and the City of Cape Town
Fight over whether operators who exited the industry should be licensed to come back
News | 7 October 2019
Don’t rob us, plead ambulance drivers
Emergency services workers protest in PE townships
Brief | 7 October 2019
City lawyers tell activist organisation to stop helping 80-year-old man facing eviction
Eviction of Kenneth Blaine escalates ideological battle between local government and Reclaim the City
Feature | 7 October 2019
Art centre pressured to remove painting by murderer
Display of Zwelethu Mthethwa’s work raises debate about freedom of expression versus dignity of family of a murdered sex worker
By Zoë Postman
News | 7 October 2019
Security guard wage negotiations deadlocked
Unions reject offer of 5% increase
By Gaby Ndongo
News | 4 October 2019