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City plays blame game over heaps of rubbish in Cape Town’s Marikana settlement

20th October 2021 Sandiso Phaliso 0

Marikana residents say they have had to put up with heaps of rubbish on their doorstep for months now.

Homeless in the ‘Mother City’

12th October 2021 Siyabonga Kamnqa 0

As World Homeless Day was marked, the City of Cape Town declared it intends appealing a court ruling that it pay compensation to homeless people it removed from District 6.

NUMSA determined to win 8% increase

5th October 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Numsa handed a memorandum of demands to the Metal and Engineering Industry Bargaining Council (MEIBC) on the first day of its national strike in the sector.

Small scale fishers and coastal communities against Karpowership project

30th September 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Small-scale fishers and coastal communities say that their livelihoods would be harmed by the Karpowership project.

Khayelitsha residents protest against overflowing sewage

29th September 2021 Vincent Lali 0

Residents of Site B in Khayelitsha protest the area’s sewer system while the City of Cape Town blames them for blockages and overflow.

Climate activists call for sustainable solutions

28th September 2021 Vincent Lali 0

Activists called for a change of leadership at the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, and for the capitalist economy to be uprooted.

Ramaphosa residents demand foul jobs

16th September 2021 Vincent Lali 0

Residents of Ramaphosa informal settlement say they want the company contracted to clean their toilets to employ people on shorter term bases to make more jobs available.

Minimum wage still not a living wage after increase

2nd August 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Workers earning the minimum wage say that its increase earlier this year has not made life easier.

Commuters bemoan taxi violence as they struggle to get to work

23rd July 2021 Siyabonga Kamnqa 0

Daily commuting in Cape Town has never been so dangerous. Eighty people have been killed this year, casualties in a turf war between taxi associations.

Nkandla style policing for all! – a call from activists

8th July 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Civil society call for the police restraint and de-escalation shown in Nkandla be extended to all protesters.

Justice delayed again for assaulted farmworker

10th May 2021 Nkosemntu Stuurman 0

Violence on South African farms is endemic and farmworkers all too commonly are the victims.

Public inquiry into the RDM explosion

7th May 2021 Terry Crawford-Browne 0

Peace activist and country coordinator for World Beyond War, Terry Crawford- Browne, kept a diary of the inquiry into the explosion that happened in September 2018 at the Rheinmetall Denel Munition. These are his notes.

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