In August 2015, residents from Ginsberg blockaded roads demanding better roads and other services from the local municipality. In the following month of September, the month when the founder of Black Conciousness in South Africa, Steve Biko, saw a number of political parties coming to Ginsberg to commemorate the 38th year since Steve Biko was killed. The political parties were the ANC, EFF and the DA.
A primary school in Alexandra with no sports facilities was declared new district championship winners of the school’s rugby tournament Gordon primary school was […]
Students at the Elsenburg Agricultural College near Stellenbosch have vowed to persist with their call for transformation despite the compromise to have full English and […]
It has been a year since the Khayelitsha Commission concluded its work on policing. The work of the commission covered a lot of challenges facing policing in Khayelitsha some of which include domestic violence. It found that the police were ill equipped to deal with cases involving domestic violence and women abuse.
Trainee nurses at Port Elizabeth’s Lilitha campus spent three weeks locked out of the college protesting against a new protocol that required them to wear their uniforms when attending lectures.
The nurses, who are based at Lilitha’s sub-campus at Dora Nginza hospital, felt that the college was overstepping its mandate as this was not part of the agreement they had signed when they enrolled for their nursing programme.
The recent High Court ruling in which garnishee orders against 15 consumers were declared unlawful and was a victory for the poor.
The lack of Afrikaans teachers caused a week-long closure of schools in “coloured” areas of Port Elizabeth. Protests that started in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas […]
The recent spate of shack fires have left the community of Orange Farm in distress. Different shack fire incidents have claimed 10 lives in Orange […]
This year’s May Day was marked by deep and visible division in the country’s biggest trade union federation. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, […]
About 6,000 municipal workers took to the streets of Cape Town to hand over a memorandum demanding better working conditions and treatment of workers at […]
Setswetla is an informal settlement in Alexandra township, which is located barely 5km from Sandton. There is no electricity, residents rely on bucket and pit […]
Hundreds of residents of Taliban Informal Settlement are forced to use one filthy pit toilet as they desperately continue to live in an area alongside […]
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