November 01, 2022
South Africa: Appeal Court Trashes Siyangena's R5.5-Billion Appeal Bid
Ex-PRASA contractor "rightly found by the high court to have been complicit to the corruption, impropriety and maladministration" Read more »
South Africa: Municipalities Are Failing to Provide Clean Water. Citizens Are Stepping in to Fix the Problem
Municipalities will only clean up their act if officials are sentenced to prison, says lawyer Read more »
October 31, 2022
South Africa: Gomora in Joburg Is Where Dreams Go to Die
Families crowd into tiny rooms, with no electricity or water, making a living as best they can Read more »
South Africa: Eastern Cape Farm Dwellers Plead for Access to Electricity and Water
But farmers explain it is too costly for them to pay to install the infrastructure Read more »
South Africa: Millions to Be Spent to Complete Abandoned Lottery-Funded Projects
Engineers to be paid directly to finish multi-million rand infrastructure projects Read more »
South Africa: Farm Workers March to Parliament to Demand Major Reform
List of demands handed to Minister of Agriculture Read more »
October 28, 2022
South Africa: Homeless - 'I Never Grew Up to Stand By a Robot With a Board'
Cape Town organisation feeding nearly three times as many people since 2019 Read more »
South Africa: After Two Years the Ga-Rankuwa to Pretoria Train Is Running Again. We Tried It
PRASA says it's still working to get the Pretoria to Johannesburg line running again Read more »
October 27, 2022
South Africa: Stolen Toilets Sold to Desperate Families in Cape Town
At least 42 toilets have been stolen and sold in Dunoon Read more »
South Africa: 'Bring Back the Money' - Picketers Shout At Suspended SJC Activist Outside Court
Xolani Klaas is accused of using SJC funds to buy personal items like furniture and a laptop Read more »
South Africa: Homeless - Not Nearly Enough Shelters in Johannesburg
"Life is hell on the streets. It's the survival of the fittest" Read more »
South Africa: 'Government Has Forgotten the July Unrest. You Can't Have Millions of People Going Hungry.'
Civil society groups respond to Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement Read more »
South Africa: Trouble in Paradise Park - the Seven-Year Battle to Keep Eviction At Bay
"I would not have invested my money here if somebody told me the truth," says Hermanus home owner Read more »
October 26, 2022
South Africa: Protesters Shut Down Polokwane, Demanding Water
Angry Seshego residents block N1 Read more »
South Africa: R350-a-Month Grant Extended Until March 2024
But millions who used to get the grant have not been receiving it Read more »
South Africa: Rural Amathole Villages Unite to Fix Water Scheme
Residents of 40 villages are working with the municipality to fix the R125-million Mncwasa water scheme Read more »
South Africa: City of Cape Town's New Transport Plan Ditches Big Legacy Projects
Plan to lower the cost of public transport and the time spent commuting Read more »
South Africa: Khayelitsha Lesbian Murder Trial Set for January
The case was previously postponed at least 11 times since May 2022 Read more »
October 25, 2022
South Africa: 'This Place Is Full of Rats' Says Homeless Man From District Six
Group of about 100 people recently won a court case against the City of Cape Town Read more »
South Africa: In It to Win It - Joe Slovo Learners Head to World Robotics Championship
"Robo47" designed at Sinenjongo High School can pick up a ball and throw it Read more »
South Africa: Homeless - Gqeberha's Quiet Recycling Squad
People on the street collect cans, plastic and wood to survive Read more »
October 24, 2022
South Africa: It Will Be 'Catastrophic' If Municipality Loses R493-Million Grant, Amathole Activists Say
The municipality may have to forfeit the conditional grant due to underspending Read more »
South Africa: Nurses Back at Work at Gqeberha Clinics
Clinics were closed after death of Zenizole Vena Read more »
South Africa: Remembering Yoliswa Dwane
Fierce, intense, principled: Equal Education would not have been possible without her Read more »
South Africa: More Than 100 Families At Paradise Park in Hermanus to Be Evicted, As Judge Dismisses Appeal Application
Stern words from the judge as a seven-year resistance to eviction appears to come to an end Read more »