65 people held in a cell meant for 25
News | 3 February 2016
Pollsmoor detainees speak out
News | 3 February 2016
Companies want to restrict our access to new data services because they're harder to spy on
Opinion | 3 February 2016
27 January 2016 NEWS
Asylum-seeker spends six weeks in prison
"It’s not that we are being difficult or trying to make people's lives harder. We just want access to the education we paid for."
News | 27 January 2016
Cape Town man says police refused to open docket
News | 27 January 2016
Further reports of police brutality surface
News | 21 January 2016
An article by Eduard Grebe highlighting police brutality spurred the Cape Town Rastafarian community to protest outside Woodstock Police Station today.
News | 14 January 2016
Equal Education researchers explain what's promising, and what isn't.
By Yeukai Mukorombindo and Gabriel Nahmias
Analysis | 8 January 2016
How the cops locked me up for trying to stop police brutality and then carried out an even more vicious beating in front of me.
By Eduard Grebe
News | 8 January 2016
“I am sick and tired and wish I could be resettled to another country. They should not treat people like animals,” says a man trying to renew his refugee status. He is one of many complaining about the service at Home Affairs on Cape Town's foreshore.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 18 December 2015
Wolwerivier residents and Ndifuna Ukwazi activists tracked down the City Council's Benedicta van Minnen at Camps Bay beach today after she was not available to meet them at the Civic Centre.
Barbara Maregele
News | 14 December 2015
The South African Presidency should be a site to advance the struggle for social equality, for the righting of historic crimes against black people, for jobs, houses, healthcare and education, for human rights globally and at home. This struggle can no longer be lead by a person as compromised, divisive and ineffective as President Jacob Zuma. He must be recalled by the ANC.
Tshepo Motsepe
Opinion | 14 December 2015
Activists have accused government officials of turning a blind eye to a pattern of environmental violations at the Tormin dune mine on the West Coast – including a “catastrophic” cliff collapse – after state departments failed to act on a string of letters, objections and a formal appeal.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 11 December 2015
Police cases against three Tormin mine managers, one of whom was accused of driving into and knocking over a mineworker during a strike, have all been withdrawn.
Barbara Maregele
Feature | 11 December 2015
The plight of the De Waal Drive families threatened with removal by the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements struck a chord with many Capetonians. But the same process is happening, away from public scrutiny, in other parts of the city, writes Daneel Knoetze of Ndifuna Ukwazi.
Analysis | 10 December 2015