Khayelitsha clinics equipped for eye screening
The official launch of these services took place in Khayelitsha, Michael Mapongwana clinic, but they are also available in other areas such as Mfuleni and Nolungile clinic in Site C.
Cape Town
CPFs welcome police plan to recruit more detectives
The police are on a recruitment drive to boost the number of detectives in the service. CPF leaders say that unless the forensics capacity of the police is also improved, detective services will remain overwhelmed and disabled.
Nsfas students endure delayed payments and high bank fees
While students are preparing for year-end exams, Nsfas beneficiaries say their problems have not been addressed.
Bus commuters knocked by fare increase
The cost of transport is up to half of a Khayelitsha household’s expenses and it is going ever up.
Residents of informal settlements on Cape Town’s railways ‘live in poop’
Communities along Cape Town’s central line complain of inadequate sanitation and access to water as the plan to relocate them stalls.
Attempts to relocate land occupiers on Cape Town railway going nowhere
Trains on Prasa’s central line in Cape Town have not run since November 2019, allowing landless people to move on to the railway. It is now unclear when rail services on the city’s busiest line will resume.
Families of Rheinmetall Denel Munition victims call for a formal inquest
While a public inquiry by the Department of Labour found that the arms company has a case to answer, the NPA has closed the book on the case.
Protect The West Coast’s victory checks Trans Hex mining
The agreement reached is a major victory in the ongoing battle to hold mining companies to account.
Cape Town residents protest ‘unaffordable’ electricity tariff increase
Civic organisations and political parties marched against the electricity tariffs on Saturday.
Plea to transform Clareinch Post Office to a place of healing as Uyinene is remembered
The Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation, the University of Cape Town (UCT), and civil society organisations marched from Uyinene’s former residence, to the Clareinch Post Office where she was brutally murdered in 2019.
Khayelitsha residents march to Home Affairs
Long snaking queues are the order of the day at the Khayelitsha Home Affairs office.
Activist advocate Ayanda Gladile ‘killed by the township he sought to better’
Advocate Ayanda Gladile was described as someone who had dedicated his life to the struggle. A R100,000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest of his killer/s.
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