Night of looting a big cost to workers
The future of the grocery store that was looted and burned on Saturday night in Samora Machel is uncertain and its employees might lose their jobs.
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Gugulethu residents march for health and safety
The Movement for Change and Social Justice joined with Realistic, Gugulethu Development Forum and Gugulethu Progressive Development Forum to march to various government entities around the township to deliver their memorandum of demands for better services.
Protestors call for tougher measures against violent men
About 3,000 protestors gathered outside Parliament in Cape Town before going to the World Economic Forum meeting in the International Convention Centre, calling for action to combat men who rape and murder women.
Emboldened by the state, Brazil’s militias are operating with increasing impunity
In March 2018, news of the assassination of Marielle Franco reverberated around the world. As the first black, queer woman from a favela to be elected to […]
UAWU vow to intensify the strike for insourcing
The workers have been on strike for 2 weeks demanding to be insourced by the University of Cape Town.
No end in sight for N2 Express suspension
Commuters continue to suffer the lack of a safe, reliable and affordable public transport system.
Makhaza residents still waiting for own police station
Insecurity in Khayelitsha as police dawdle in their duties and leave the Neighbourhood Watch without support.
“We will continue until we win,” say the Turkish protesters taking on a major Canadian mining project
At a teahouse in the tiny village of Karaibrahimler in Turkey’s lush north-western Biga Peninsula, older male residents sitting at a table debate with young […]
Kuyasa market stalls remain closed after 10 years
Despite spending R180-million on the Kuyasa Interchange in 2008, the market stalls at the station have remained white elephants.
Small-scale farmers march for land and support
The small-scale farmers need common grazing lands to be opened by the municipality so that they can raise their livestock.
In the US, big banks are divesting from private prisons, thanks to anti-ICE activism
Major private prison firms CoreCivic and GEO Group stand to lose 72 percent — about US$1.9 billion — of their private financing as major banks […]
Workers strike for insourcing by UCT
A group of about 50 workers, working at UCT but employed by ‘service providers’, took part in a strike to be insourced by the university.
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