South Africa: How a Lawyer Used a Lottery-Funded Project As His Personal ATM

Lesley Ramulifho paid for fancy restaurants, high-end interior decor and work on a Porsche using money meant for a drug rehab Read more »

South Africa: Low Wages Are Not Just the Farmers' Fault - U.S. Activist

"We can't just blame the farmers for poor farm worker wages," said Baldemar Velásquez, an American labour activist and president of the Farm Labor Organising Committee… Read more »

South Africa: Sassa and Home Affairs Offices Stand Empty

In 2011, offices for Home Affairs and the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) were officially opened in Maqongqo Centre, Pietermaritzburg. But resident Nolwazi Chiliza says the… Read more »

South Africa: Over 1,000 Villagers Without Tap Water for Three Months

Ncorha Bulk Water Project will only be completed at the end of 2020. Read more »

South Africa: Asylum Seeker Wins Right to Marry

The Supreme Court of Appeal has declared Home Affairs's prohibition on asylum seekers marrying unconstitutional Read more »

South Africa: Occupations Are the Tool to Hold Government to Account, Say Housing Activists

On Friday night, about 200 people gathered at Helen Bowden Nurses' Home for Reclaim the City's (RTC) second annual congress. The two-day event aimed to chart the way forward for… Read more »

South Africa: Shop Owner a No Show At Equality Court Hearing

The notice to appear in court served on the owner of a store where Liezel Haskin's son was denied access was not done in time said Mitchells Plain Magistrate Rene Hindley in the… Read more »

South Africa: Twelve Tshikota Residents Arrested in Water Protests

Twelve people were arrested last week following protests by Tshikota residents in Louis Trichardt over water. Six police officers were injured in the protests. Read more »

South Africa: Cape Town Mayor Addresses Refugees Camped Outside the UNHCR in Protest

Over 200 people are sleeping rough in a protest that has no end in sight Read more »

South Africa: Viewfinder Responds to Robert McBride

McBride's critique of our exposé was surprising. He is on record agreeing with some of our article's most important takeaways. Read more »

South Africa: 'Serious Health Risk' to Marikana Residents As Garbage Piles Up

For over a month rubbish overflowed from green garbage skips all along Sheffield Road, which runs past Rholihlala, Marikana 1 and Marikana 2 informal settlements in Philippi.… Read more »

South Africa: Eastern Cape Learners Demand Basic Infrastructure for Schools

More than 200 learners from different public schools in King William's Town marched to the Eastern Cape Department of Education offices in Zwelitsha on Thursday. The marchers, led… Read more »

South Africa: Teenage Gang Fights Erupt Between Villagers

Parents and community leaders in Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape are alarmed by teenage gang fights which have resulted in five stabbings during the September exams, they say. Read more »

South Africa: Chickens Pay for Guest House

First a hair salon, then a booming chicken business, and now serial entrepreneur Nthabiseng Moshoeshoe has opened her own guest house in Mfuleni, Cape Town. Read more »

South Africa: 'Enough With Blackouts' Say Soshanguve Residents

Residents of Soshanguve ward 26 marched to the City of Tshwane's local offices in block KK on Wednesday. In a memorandum, the residents demanded housing, tarred roads,… Read more »

South Africa: Lottery Chief Sues GroundUp for R600,000

Philemon Letwaba, the Chief Operating Officer of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) is suing GroundUp for R600,000. He is also demanding the removal of six articles GroundUp… Read more »

South Africa: After Fatal Stabbing, Parents Demand End to 'Bombing Ritual' At School

Parents and the community of Eastwood in Pietermaritzburg are urging the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education to deploy more security at Eastwood Secondary School. The call comes… Read more »

South Africa: Construction Company Has Completed Only 20% of Housing Contract

Eastern Cape Human Settlements department blamed for delays Read more »

South Africa: Philippi Land to Be Sold Is Not Useful for Farming, Court Told

Farm workers packed the back rows of the courtroom on the second day of the campaign by Philippi farmers against the City of Cape Town and the MEC for Local Development,… Read more »

South Africa: Philippi Farmers Challenge City On Development of Agricultural Land

Farmers and workers held posters and sang on the steps of the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. They were protesting against plans to rezone part of the Philippi Horticultural… Read more »

South Africa: 'Illegal and Criminal' Demolitions in Durban, Say Shack Dwellers

"This was a new invasion and the people had not settled there. No court order was required," says City Read more »

South Africa: How Inclusionary Housing Can Make Cape Town a Better Place

Last month, Ndifuna Ukwazi launched litigation in the Western Cape High Court to advance inclusionary housing in Cape Town. Some members of the public may be asking: what is… Read more »

South Africa: Four Years Later, No Sign of Water in These Pietermaritzburg Taps

The uMgungundlovu municipality in Pietermaritzburg has broken its promise to send contractors to Maqongqo to fix taps which have never had water since their installation four years… Read more »

South Africa: West Coast Town Erupts in Protests Over Housing Mess-Up

The small West Coast town of Velddrif was brought to a standstill on Monday as scores of residents took to the streets to protest over the allocation of newly built houses, among… Read more »

South Africa: Marievale Cousins Accuse SANDF Soldiers of Assault

"The soldiers kept kicking them so badly we thought they would kill them", says witness Read more »