Human Rights
Scathing report released on Cape Town’s homeless policies
The more than 400-page report was compiled by The Inkathalo Conversations and commissioned by the City in 2020
By James Stent
News | 4 November 2021
Immigrant children use art to show how prejudice hurts
“I have never been to the DRC. I speak Sesotho fluently and a bit of Afrikaans but I am treated very differently by my peers.”
Photo Essay | 29 October 2021
Survivors of apartheid violations sleep outside Constitutional Court
They want government to pay them reparations they believe are owed to them
News | 27 October 2021
Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog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
Brief | 26 October 2021
Vital Concourt judgment on warrantless searches
Case arises out of “degrading and invasive” raids on “poor and vulnerable” communities in downtown Johannesburg
Law | 25 October 2021
Homeless people organise to vote in local elections
National Homeless Network presents manifesto to ANC, DA, IFP, and Action SA in Durban meeting
News | 22 October 2021
Police use stun grenades to break up Cape Town housing protest
This followed a raid of the Woodstock Hospital occupation earlier on Friday
News | 15 October 2021
Court rules that District Six eviction was unlawful
People do not choose to live in a public parking area out of malice or wilfulness but out of desperation and need, says judge
Law | 11 October 2021
Matriculant petitions for stateless youths to get into universities
She is among many South African-born children with immigrant parents struggling to get identification documents
News | 7 October 2021