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  • ‘No 10-year-old should be a mother’: Eastern Cape’s child pregnancy crisis

    More than 15,000 girls aged just 10 to 19 years have given birth in the Eastern Cape since April 2024, a deepening crisis of child pregnancy driven by poor health access, limited education, and systemic neglect.

  • Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners

    Lack of basic services is at the centre of discontent in two East London settlements.

  • Defend Iran, Defeat Zionism and US Imperialism

    The imperialists are attempting regime change in Iran. The Islamic republic must be defended.

  • Domestic workers demand end to abuse on International Domestic Workers’ Day

    Domestic workers in South Africa are by law meant to have the same rights and protections as other workers.

  • Sassa withholds grants from thousands for not disclosing their income

    Sassa’s verification process has had dire consequences for many grant beneficiaries.

‘No 10-year-old should be a mother’: Eastern Cape’s child pregnancy crisis

20th June 2025 0

More than 15,000 girls aged just 10 to 19 years have given birth in the Eastern Cape since April 2024, a deepening crisis of child pregnancy driven by poor health access, limited education, and systemic neglect.

Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners

19th June 2025 0

Lack of basic services is at the centre of discontent in two East London settlements.

Defend Iran, Defeat Zionism and US Imperialism

19th June 2025 0

The imperialists are attempting regime change in Iran. The Islamic republic must be defended.

Domestic workers demand end to abuse on International Domestic Workers’ Day

17th June 2025 0

Domestic workers in South Africa are by law meant to have the same rights and protections as other workers.

Sassa withholds grants from thousands for not disclosing their income

15th June 2025 0

Sassa’s verification process has had dire consequences for many grant beneficiaries.

Labour

Domestic workers demand end to abuse on International Domestic Workers’ Day

17th June 2025 0

Alternative budget calls for taxing of the rich

21st May 2025 0

SA lags behind African unions in organising e-hailing workers

16th May 2025 0

Farm workers march to demand services from the Department of Labour

13th May 2025 0

Court interpreters in W Cape on strike

8th May 2025 0

Education

‘No 10-year-old should be a mother’: Eastern Cape’s child pregnancy crisis

20th June 2025 0

Once proud Vuwani boarding school now a squalid shame

3rd June 2025 0

Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future

13th April 2025 0

Rage over rape of seven-year-old ‘Cwecwe’ in Matatiele

4th April 2025 0

Students have higher education minister on-side against University of Fort Hare

6th March 2025 0

Service delivery

Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners

19th June 2025 0

Cape Town’s central line reopens

29th May 2025 0

Protest leaders arrested as tensions grow in Covid Village

27th May 2025 0

Shack dwellers from Khayelitsha protest in Cape Town

24th April 2025 0

Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future

13th April 2025 0
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