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Sassa card replacement process proves costly for grant beneficiaries

25th February 2025 Vincent Lali 0

A new Sassa card means more long queues and frustration for grant beneficiaries.

GNU differences postpone budget speech while People’s Budget petition falls on deaf ears

20th February 2025 Mzi Velapi 0

Finance minister Godongwane would neither make his budget speech nor hear the People’s Budget petition against austerity.

Cosatu, Saftu and SACP unite against budget cuts

18th February 2025 Mzi Velapi 0

Over 20 organisations have endorsed the people’s budget that calls for an end to austerity measures.

Stun grenades, arrests but no beds for homeless students at CPUT

12th February 2025 Vincent Lali 0

Hundreds of CPUT students are still without accommodation while the university says its residences are full.

Protesters accuse government of mass murder in Stilfontein

5th February 2025 Mzi Velapi 0

Activists say that the Stilfontein artisanal miners were killed by the police after years of government failure.

Shack fire leaves hundreds homeless in Khayelitsha

29th January 2025 Vincent Lali 0

Strong winds, density of the shacks and the slow response of emergency services make the fires more damaging.

Bishop Lavis parents protest declining education standards

15th January 2025 Mzi Velapi 0

The quality of education in schools is taking a hammering from cuts to the education budget.

Khayelitsha school achieves 99.3% pass rate

14th January 2025 Mzi Velapi 0

Joe Slovo achieved its best improvements in the maths and science pass rates.

Cosatu and PSC call for boycott of US companies

29th November 2024 Chris Gilili 0

Protests outside the US consulates in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and the embassy in Pretoria, on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine.

Sea Harvest strike continues to second day

27th November 2024 Mzi Velapi 0

Last year the company made profit of R282-million.

Sea Harvest workers go on strike

27th November 2024 Mzi Velapi 0

As Sea Harvest’s on-shore employees work in hostile conditions, off-shore workers in May were lost at sea.

PSC calls for NPA to prosecute South Africans involved in Gaza genocide

22nd November 2024 Chris Gilili 0

South Africans recruited into the Israeli Defence Forces have long flouted legislation forbidding foreign military assistance.

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