Human Rights

Vodacom and MTN: hands off WhatsApp and Skype

Companies want to restrict our access to new data services because they're harder to spy on

By

Opinion | 3 February 2016

Quiet walk home turns into nightmare for Malawians

Asylum-seeker spends six weeks in prison

Disabled UCT students demand access

"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."

By

News | 27 January 2016

Gay activist attacked in Port Elizabeth tavern

Cape Town man says police refused to open docket

By

News | 27 January 2016

Eduard Grebe’s allegations against police have not been investigated

Further reports of police brutality surface

By

News | 21 January 2016

Rastafarians protest against police brutality

An article by Eduard Grebe highlighting police brutality spurred the Cape Town Rastafarian community to protest outside Woodstock Police Station today.

By

News | 14 January 2016

What do the matric results mean?

Equal Education researchers explain what's promising, and what isn't.

By and

Analysis | 8 January 2016

I was jailed for filming a police assault

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

News | 8 January 2016

Home Affairs incompetence causes refugees to lose jobs, money and bank accounts

“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