Joe Slovo residents demand basic services
Informal settlement residents from Joe Slovo Township near Milnerton have demanded that City of Cape Town urgently provide them with basic services such as flush […]
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Refuse collectors demand better working conditions
A month-long strike by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s (NMBM) refuse collectors was called off last week after the striking workers felt that their employer had roped in […]
Man accused of killing land activist granted bail
Mthunzi “ Ras Moziah” Zuma’s alleged killer, Alfred Bangini (59) was granted bail of R500 by the Khayelitsha Magistrate court today. Zuma was one of […]
Foreign nationals claim police don’t give attention to their cases
An organisation that represents foreign nationals from the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised concerns about their members reporting cases but not receiving enough attention […]
“Taxi industry is no longer lucrative”
When they took to the streets on the 15th of June 2017, marching against SA Taxi Finance, they brought the country’s economic hub to a […]
Violence against women and children condemned in Strandfontein
The Western Cape MEC for Community Safety, Dan Plato, has called on criminologists and other academics to get to the bottom of women and child […]
Overcrowding and delays blamed for burning of trains in Cape Town
Khayelitsha residents have attributed the torching of PRASA trains and the vandalism of the company’s property in Cape Town last week to the frustration train […]
SAPS ‘catch and release’ policy and the law of inequality
The rumours began on 9 April. Two notorious hostel hitmen had allegedly been released from custody – one from Westville Correctional Services Facility, the other […]
Helenvale residents demand a safer community
Gangsterism and contact crime is reportedly escalating in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas, a predominantly coloured community. Brutal killings and gun related violence are commonplace in […]
Eastern Cape parents take matters in their own hands and build a school
When the Eastern Cape Department of Education failed to provide their children with a school, parents of Dedeni village in Lusikisiki, north of Port St Johns, took matters into their own hands.
Housing Protest Movement Spreads – Building a United Front Campaign
The service delivery protest movement of largely African working class people since 1994 and more particularly since the early 2000s, represents a low-key civil war which has largely been ignored by the mainstream media. However the spread of the protest movement to the predominantly ‘coloured’ working class areas in Gauteng like Eldorado Park, Ennerdale and Newclare has received widespread media coverage because these areas have been politically silent for the past twenty three years and now suddenly exploded in violent protest.
22 people share a toilet in Ekurhuleni
After years battling to get basic services, residents of L&J (Lloyd and Johan) an informal settlement near St Georges Hotel in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, […]
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