South Africa: Operation Dudula Blocks Access to Clinics, Violating Court Order

Witness testimony plus a visit by GroundUp to clinics confirms this. Clinic security guards are also blocking access to immigrants. Read more »

Lesotho: Court Orders Lesotho Dams Authority to Pay 600 Villagers Compensation

Villagers in Bobete lost access to riverine resources since the Katse Dam was built Read more »

South Africa: GBV Victims Travel Nearly 200km to Reach Nearest State Shelter

A local resident has now turned her own four-room home into a safehouse for many women in Beaufort West who have nowhere to go Read more »

South Africa: Sassa Expects to Save R341-Million By Tightening Screenings

Treasury has added new conditions to improve the monitoring of grants Read more »

South Africa: Parliament Takes Social Housing Regulator to Task Over Stalled Projects

Ten projects with more than 3,800 units still need to be completed Read more »

South Africa: Artists and Activists Take Over Joburg Skyline Ahead of G20 Summit

They projected a series of illustrations, demanding urgent action on the global debt crisis and climate accountability Read more »

South Africa: Criminal Courts in Cape Town Are Near to Collapse

We need a total revamp of the criminal justice system Read more »

South Africa: Extortion Gangs Terrorise Cape Town's Immigrant Shop Owners

Vigilantism on the rise as people accuse the police of failing them Read more »

South Africa: Child Literacy - We Can Change How the Story Ends

The Funda Uphumelele National Survey shows us what must be done Read more »

South Africa: Unsentenced Detainees Spending Years in Prison

New legal amendments seek to address prison overcrowding crisis Read more »

South Africa: Inner City Cape Town - No Room for Locals

Short-term letting through various platforms, including Airbnb, locks up 70% of residential units in the central city Read more »

South Africa: We're Taking Government to Court for Failing to Provide Clean Water

Eastern Cape municipalities fail to realise Section 27 of the Constitution Read more »

South Africa: MPs Condemn Unsafe Living Conditions At Occupied Cape Town Building

Helen Bowden Nurses Home, near the V&A Waterfront, was occupied in 2017 Read more »

South Africa: Hundreds of Incomplete Homes Stand Empty in Kwazulu-Natal Housing Project

Provincial government has spent more than R101-million Read more »

South Africa: Why Magistrates Are Protesting

Judicial Officers Association of South Africa complains of "economic abuse" Read more »

South Africa: Pensioners Forced to Make Repeat Trips to Apply for Old Age Grants

To deal with the high demand in Bellville, SASSA will operate until 6pm Read more »

Africa: How Common Are Same-Sex Unions in South Africa? We Found Out

Our data repudiate the idea that same-sex relationships are a reflection of modernity or a Western cultural import Read more »

South Africa: Chief Justice's Office Publishes 'Gag' Order

A "gagging" court order against Open Secrets -- under which the organisation claimed it could not reveal any details of the dispute or even which judge or which court heard the… Read more »

South Africa: Homeless Shelter's Dance Show Ends With a Standing Ovation

The Haven's Dignity in Motion showcases ballroom dancing by people living at its shelters Read more »

South Africa: Promises, Promises but Still No School

Willowvale families have been waiting for their new school since 2018 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: Child Support Grant Has Saved Millions of Children, but There Is Still a Way to Go

7.8-million children remain below the food poverty line Read more »

South Africa: Free State Clinic Short-Staffed and Overcrowded for 10 Years

Premier promised to upgrade the clinic years ago 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 »