June 23, 2022
South Africa: Yeoville Market Fire Devastates Traders' Livelihoods
Since the 1980s, when it became a neighbourhood for all races in defiance of segregation, Yeoville has been a grand experiment in what South Africa can be. In the decades since the… Read more »
June 20, 2022
South Africa: Township Residents Without Power for Three Years
Beleaguered residents of Palm Springs in the Emfuleni local municipality in Gauteng have been living without electricity and with sewage running in the streets. Read more »
June 10, 2022
South Africa: Abandon All Hope That the ANC Cares for Us
With a government that fails to provide the much-needed relief available to a population that is increasingly desperate, the onus is on ordinary South Africans to hold the country… Read more »
June 09, 2022
South Africa: Airline's Grounding Just the Latest Blow for Workers
The airline has been in business rescue for two years without a sign of relief for employees who have felt the stress of reduced pay, insecure jobs amid retrenchments and a heavy… Read more »
June 06, 2022
Cameroon: Locusts in Cameroon - From Pest to Seasonal Asset
People fleeing the wartorn north-west region are catching grasshoppers, plucking, spicing, cooking and selling them. The profit helps keep children in school and households fed. Read more »
June 03, 2022
South Africa: Another Northern Cape Hospital Succumbs to Crisis
State patients in the province have fewer and fewer facilities available near to where they live and must travel hundreds of kilometres for treatment because of the nursing… Read more »
May 30, 2022
South Africa: The Rea Vaya Dream Hobbles On
In its latest guarantee, Johannesburg's transport department says that the next leg of the city's public bus system will be operational by September. Read more »
South Africa: Government Support the Only Way, Says Taxi Industry
The price of petrol continues to rise but commuters cannot afford a ticket hike and minibus, metered taxi and e-hailing drivers are still struggling with Covid setbacks. Read more »
May 27, 2022
South Africa: Saftu's Division Laid Bare At Congress
The election of a new leadership was a hotly contested affair that overshadowed workers' issues, but the leaders claim that this was democracy at work. Read more »
May 25, 2022
South Africa: Northern Cape Healthcare Emergency Is Deepening
Long-term government neglect of health system staff, an austerity health budget and a global shortage of nurses combine to make conditions untenable for health workers and… Read more »
May 26, 2022
South Africa: Eastern Cape Healthcare Workers Stretched Too Far
In an apparent bid to save money, the province terminated the contracts of thousands of workers and refused to fill vacant posts, leaving clinics woefully understaffed. Read more »
May 24, 2022
South Africa: We Are Not Disposable, Say Healthcare Workers
The Gauteng health department's budget has been slashed in half, resulting in nurses who worked through the pandemic sitting at home while 10 000 posts are vacant. Read more »
May 15, 2022
South Africa: Cape Town Train Improvements a Slow Chug
Commuters like the two new 'people's trains' but still have to deal with delays and no-shows, safety issues and their employers' ire when they're held up getting to work. Read more »
May 13, 2022
South Africa: Workers At Arcelormittal Refuse to Budge Over Wages
The steel manufacturer's decision to seek an interdict preventing some of its employees from taking part in the national strike has aggravated Numsa, which says it won't back down… Read more »
South Africa: Digital Switch Will Leave Millions Without TV
The analogue television signal will be turned off on 30 June in a move that will bar impoverished households from access and sink community television stations. Read more »
May 09, 2022
South Africa: Chief Executives Really Don't Need to Earn So Much
There's a limit to how much one person can spend and it falls way below what top executives are paid in South Africa. Inequality will remain until the wealthy concede this. Read more »
July 02, 2020
South Africa: Book Review | Finding Common Ground
Wandile Sihlobo's words about his passion for agricultural development in rural areas ring hollow at a close reading of his new book. It is a bidding for Big Agriculture and its… Read more »