Community care workers on strike for permanent jobs
Community healthcare workers are on the frontline in the battle against the covid-19 pandemic, yet in the Eastern Cape are still ‘volunteers’.
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Study sheds light on how South Africa can best tackle prejudice against migrants
Xenophobia is a serious problem in South Africa. Cross-border migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the country face harassment and discrimination. Hundreds of incidents of anti-immigrant hate crime […]
Covid numbers at Eastern Cape universities spike
The surge in numbers of students testing positive is a cause for concern for universities in the Eastern Cape.
Retail employees humiliated by boss’s daughter demand compensation
Women employed by a prominent flower retail business in Port Elizabeth who were humiliated in September by the boss’s daughter want the company to compensate […]
Residents of newly occupied settlements demand basic services
Residents of newly occupied areas in Cape Town struggle to maintain a dignified life without water, electricity and sanitation services.
Education department mum on youth pay
School patrollers and covid-19 brigades say they have not been paid for the past three months.
KDF says extortion won’t be tolerated in Khayelitsha
The KDF had harsh words for those who are involved in extortion of small businesses, informal traders and residents in Khayelitsha.
Over 130 villages are without water in Ngqushwa
Villagers in Ngqushwa in the Eastern Cape say they have marched and sent petitions to authorities but little relief has been provided to their shortage of water.
Home-based workers want protection
Heavily affected by the lockdown due to the covid-19 pandemic, home-based workers have not enjoyed what little relief government has provided.
Slow recovery of the informal economy still costing many livelihoods
The informal economy workers are one of the group of workers who are bearing the brunt of the pandemic as some have lost their livelihoods.
Centane village without water for 6 years
Nombanjana’s taps have been dry since 2014 but the villagers received no emergency relief during the covid-19 lockdown. When leaders protested to the Amathola District Municipality, they were arrested.
Grooms dismissed from PE race course charge ward councillor for running security business from public office
Hysterical reports of the protest in the mainstream media claimed the dismissed grooms had stabbed and maimed horses.
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