August 23, 2023
South Africa: Climate Activists Demand Action At Brics Talks #AfricaClimateCrisis
Hundreds protest in Sandton where summit is underway Read more »
South Africa: Mamelodi Shack Dwellers Won't Get Promised Houses Anytime Soon
City of Tshwane says it intends to complete approval for a township for Stoffel Park in April 2024 Read more »
August 04, 2023
South Africa: Lives of Poor and Working Class People Upended By Violent Taxi Strike
"Ordinary people like me are the ones suffering" says patient as clinic services impacted by taxi strike Read more »
South Africa: Slovo Park Fury At City of Johannesburg's Broken Promises
City has still not upgraded the settlement in spite of a 2016 court ruling Read more »
South Africa: Stalled Limpopo Bulk Water Project Leaves 100 Homes Without Tap Water
Community leaders say some households in Tshikota near Louis Trichardt have been without water for four years Read more »
South Africa: Checkmate - Gugulethu Chess Coach Shares Her Passion With Youth
Gugulethu Chess College under-11 team to go to provincial tournament Read more »
July 31, 2023
South Africa: A Month's Worth of Garbage Piles Up On Dunoon Streets
City waste removal contract ended on 30 June, with no waste collected since Read more »
July 27, 2023
South Africa: Ten Years After Groundup Revealed Her Plight, a Disabled Woman and Her Autistic Son Are Still Living in a Tiny Shack With No Electricity or Sanitation
Musa Pani is now 17 and nothing has changed for the better Read more »
July 21, 2023
South Africa: Small Farmers in the Cederberg Still Reeling From Flood Damage #AfricaClimateCrisis
Provincial department wants the area to be declared a disaster zone Read more »
July 12, 2023
South Africa: Refugees Face 'No Hope' Service From Home Affairs
Dozens queue, but the reception office in Gqeberha only serves 15 asylum seekers a day Read more »
July 05, 2023
South Africa: Safe Space for Homeless People in Green Point One Step Closer
Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead Read more »
July 04, 2023
South Africa: University of Cape Town Should Not Host Anti-Gay Professor
Patrick Lumumba's statements perpetuate lies about same-sex relationships in African history Read more »
South Africa: Mining Companies Eye the Last Unspoilt Strip of the Western Cape's West Coast #AfricaClimateCrisis
Concerns over cumulative impact of new prospecting Read more »
South Africa: Taxi Operators Handed 'Incomplete' Multi-Million Rand Rank By Eastern Cape Municipality
The contractor for the Xhora taxi rank has been in a dispute with Mbhashe Local Municipality for over eight years Read more »
June 27, 2023
South Africa: Khayelitsha Residents Fed Up With Years of Delays in Housing Project
Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 "housing opportunities" will only begin next year Read more »
June 23, 2023
South Africa: There's a Way to Sort Out Lighting in Informal Settlements
Solar powered public lights are better than high-mast lights, collaborative Cape Town project suggests Read more »
South Africa: No One Knows When Building Will Restart On the Manenberg School of Skills
The construction tender was ruled invalid because of bungling by a Western Cape government department Read more »
South Africa: Taps Not Tankers Say Land Occupiers in Cape Town
"We are wary of using water from the tankers because of what happened in Hammanskraal" Read more »
June 08, 2023
South Africa: Exhibition Imagines an Alternative Future for an Inclusive Cape Town
Residents of Cissie Gool House have co-designed an exhibit at the Cape Institute for Architecture Read more »
South Africa: Pharmaceutical Giant Bayer Stops Clicks Selling Cheaper Generic Blood Thinning Medication
The judge took over a year to rule in "urgent application" Read more »
June 01, 2023
South Africa: Protesters Call for Taverns to Be Shut Down in Central East London
"We don't want a repeat of Enyobeni" Read more »
May 09, 2023
South Africa: It Will Take Ethekwini Over 90 Years to Fix Informal Settlements, Says Metro
Meanwhile thousands of families in Foreman Road informal settlement live without adequate services Read more »
South Africa: Pregnant Immigrants Say They Have Been Turned Away From Joburg Clinics
This is despite a Constitutional Court order Read more »
May 05, 2023
South Africa: Ratepayers Get Behind New Safe Space for Homeless in Green Point
New overnight shelter should be complete by end of the year Read more »
May 04, 2023
South Africa: Eastern Cape Principal Accused of Beating Learners With a Hose Pipe
The principal is one of six teachers in the Eastern Cape currently under investigation by the department for use of corporal punishment Read more »