South Africa: Cape Town Needs Rent Control. Here Are Six Ways We Could Do It

Renting a home close to the city has become unaffordable even for many middle-class households Read more »

South Africa: How South Africa's Job Market Has Changed

There are 2.6-million more jobs than in 2008, but 10.4-million more people who need them Read more »

South Africa: Government Slammed for Failed Farm Ownership Plans

Parliament asked to investigate worker equity schemes Read more »

Lesotho: Lesotho Community Left in Ruins By Highway Project

The road, built by a Chinese company, has improved access to Qacha's Nek but also caused damage and displacement Read more »

South Africa: Workers Shut Down Cape Town Construction Project Over Unpaid Wages

Security guards have been protesting outside a project to build pavements in Illitha Park, Khayelitsha since Monday Read more »

Lesotho: Lesotho Sheds Textile Jobs Amidst U.S. Trade Uncertainty

Hippo Knitting has laid off 295 workers and plans to retrench another 420 in January Read more »

South Africa: Families Camp At Lily Mine for Six Years Waiting for Bodies of Their Loved Ones

Three miners remain buried 70 metres underground after a collapse at the Barberton mine in 2016 Read more »

South Africa: Pensioners Ask Parliament to Increase Grant to R5,000

"We are not asking for charity, we are asking for justice and dignity" Read more »

South Africa: The Real Cost of Johannesburg's Water

Families living alongside the huge Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme get no water Read more »

South Africa: EPWP Workers March for Permanent Jobs and Better Pay

Pay is too little to survive on, workers say Read more »

Lesotho: Workers March in Maseru As AGOA Uncertainty Threatens Thousands of Jobs

Protest, originally banned, proceeded after police minister gave it the go-ahead Read more »

South Africa: Child Drowned At Construction Site Abandoned By City of Ekurhuleni

Department of Environmental Affairs says it may refer the matter for criminal prosecution Read more »

South Africa: More Than 10-Million Consumers Cannot Repay Their Debt

But there is a silver lining Read more »

South Africa: Limpopo Transport Workers Camp Outside Premier's Office to Demand Unpaid Pensions

Hundreds of former and current Great North Transport employees have been holding sit-ins and night vigils since 15 October Read more »

South Africa: Magistrates Protest Outside Parliament

Magistrates are demanding salary increases and better working conditions Read more »

South Africa: Public Protector to Probe Promotion of CCMA Official Who Tampered With Case Management System

An investigation had previously found Nomzame Jaxa guilty of altering records to boost the office's statistics Read more »

South Africa: Tshwane Municipality Fails to Improve Living Conditions At Mamelodi Hostel

Three years ago the City promised to restore electricity and erect a fence. Nothing has been done and the place is deteriorating Read more »

Lesotho: Police Block Protest By Textile Workers in Lesotho

Unions accuse police of acting unlawfully by denying permission for a protest march against job losses Read more »

South Africa: Homegrown Bicycle Delivery Service Creates Jobs for Youth in Langa

Groceries and takeaways are delivered where big companies don't reach Read more »

South Africa: Outrage As Cape Town Rubbish Removal Company Fails to Pay Workers

City of Cape Town says it will strengthen checks and balances when appointing contractors in the future Read more »

South Africa: Janitors Employed to Clean Toilets Have to Buy Their Own Water to Do It

Company contracted to City of Cape Town does not provide water to cleaners, in a settlement which has none Read more »

South Africa: Somerset West Taxi Route Opened, but Dispute Is Not Over

Rival taxi associations still disagree over route from Khayelitsha to Somerset West Read more »

South Africa: Raw Sewage Forces Khayelitsha Families to Abandon Shacks

A blockage in the main sewer line has caused manholes to overflow Read more »

South Africa: Death Toll Rises From Makhado Bus Crash

Relatives gather to identify the bodies of the dead Read more »

Lesotho: Hundreds of Jobs At Stake At Lesotho Diamond Mine

25% state-owned Kao Mine could shut down "within weeks" Read more »