South Africa: Informal Traders in PE Want Municipality to Build Stalls and Toilets

Informal fruit and vegetable traders along Ranger Street in Markman Industrial, Port Elizabeth, have been pleading for the municipality to improve their working area by building… Read more »

South Africa: Police Are Making Arbitrary Arrests at Protests

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) has been representing people, mostly from poor backgrounds, who were arrested during a protest at Kliptown Square before the last local… Read more »

South Africa: How Expropriation Without Compensation Works in Alexandra

Last Thursday evening Sibusiso Vumase was entertaining guests when he heard a loud knock on his front door. When he opened the door, a group of people carrying crow bars and… Read more »

South Africa: Nyanga Fire Victims Unable to Rebuild Their Homes

Nearly a month after a fire gutted two shacks in Mkhonto Square, Nyanga, the families are still battling to rebuild their homes. The families say they have not received any… Read more »

South Africa: EFF Must Apologise to Manuel

EFF must apologise to Manuel Read more »

South Africa: Residents Want City to Speed Up Housing Plans in Strand

Evicted land occupiers have been staying in community halls, which means many social grant recipients have had to spend much more money on transport to get their grants at… Read more »

South Africa: Springs Residents Protest Against Violent Vigilantes

Residents of Kwathema Extension Three in Springs protested on Tuesday against a group of vigilantes who they believe are out of control. The protesters burnt tyres and blocked… Read more »

South Africa: Township Residents March Through Rondebosch to Demand Better Lighting

"I want to be able to walk in my street at night under the lights without fear. Instead I have to rush home before the sun goes down" Read more »

South Africa: Bottling Company Workers to Strike Next Wednesday

More than 80 workers at the Breëriviervallei Bottling company in Worcester are set to down tools next Wednesday. The workers are asking for an 18% wage hike among other… Read more »

South Africa: Freedom of Expression Under Threat, New Campaign Warns

South Africa's hard-won constitutional rights to freedom of expression and of legitimate political protest are under mounting pressure from both the state and private companies,… Read more »

South Africa: Crucial Watson Wind Farm Talks This Week

Talks this week between the national environmental authorities and the well-known Watson family of the Eastern Cape could prove crucial as to whether, and how, the family's… Read more »

South Africa: Mayor 'Can't Remember' Residents to Whom Houses Were Promised Before Polls

Residents of a derelict municipal building in Queens Street, Pietermaritzburg, say Msunduzi mayor Themba Njilo visited them just before the elections and promised to fix their… Read more »

South Africa: Woman Arrested in Sea Point Gets Job

Good news for 23-year-old Esethu Mcinjana: she got the job that she hoped for. Read more »

South Africa: Seven Zimbabwean Teenagers Have Been Living Under a Tree for Almost a Year

"This municipal bin is our soup kitchen" Read more »

South Africa: Ward Councillor Locked Out of Her Office

The owners of several small businesses locked ward 47 Councillor Nontuthuzelo Skweyiya (ANC) out of her office in KwaNobuhle township, Uitenhage for about five hours on Monday.… Read more »

South Africa: Threat of New Strike At Robertson Winery

Workers are frustrated with negotiations over wages and labour conditions at Robertson Winery and a strike is on the table. The current round of talks are the first since a… Read more »

South Africa: Africa Day Workshop in Dunoon Tackles Xenophobia

Violent crime against immigrants was discussed at an information session hosted by the Institute for Healing of Memories and with the Claremont Main Road Mosque in Dunoon on Africa… Read more »

South Africa: Nurses in Village Clinic Buy Medical Essentials With Their Own Money

Health workers have to draw blood without gloves Read more »

South Africa: Eastern Cape Family's Looooong Battle to Get a Correct ID

According to Masibulele Soboyisi's ID he was too young to write matric, so he can't get his results Read more »

South Africa: New Life for Khayelitsha Crèche That Was Nearly Closed Down

Rainbow Educare is now officially registered Read more »

South Africa: 'A Woman Cannot Just Sit When Her Children Have Nothing to Eat'

Amai Tanya sets out early on a chilly morning from her one-roomed apartment in Tsakane in Brakpan with her two-month-old baby girl on her back. She packs a small lunch and gathers… Read more »

South Africa: Limpopo's Forgotten Schools and the Lottery's Expensive Toilets

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) seems to have paid up to twice as much as necessary to replace pit toilets at schools in Limpopo - with the money going to a little known… Read more »

South Africa: Invite Me for Coffee, Winde Tells Marchers

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde had just announced his new cabinet when about 200 residents of Marikana informal settlement protested outside the provincial legislature on… Read more »

South Africa: Woman Arrested, Locked in a Cell Overnight After Taking Selfies at Sea Point

A 23-year-old Blue Downs woman is considering suing the police after being arrested while sitting on a bench in Sea Point and then being locked in a cell for the night. Read more »

South Africa: Cape Town's Hostels to Be Upgraded

Upgrading of hostels in Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu is likely to start next year, the City of Cape Town announced on Thursday. Read more »