Poorest in Zimbabwe look for food in dumps
Tsanzaguru is a relatively new township in Rusape about 200km away from Harare. Residents complain that Rusape Municipality is dumping food in the area, inviting scavenging by unscrupulous vendors.
Month: June 2018
‘Enoch Mgijima Municipality is collapsing’
Residents of Queenstown want the troubled Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality to be placed under administration because of financial mismanagement and its failure to deliver services. At least 44 municipal assets worth millions – including fire brigade and garbage collection vehicles and road graders – were auctioned off to pay a construction company that built a community hall in Sterkstroom back in 2016.
In Iraq, trade unions are helping to rebuild popular power
In Iraq’s May national elections, of the 329 parliamentary deputies chosen, Sairoon (meaning ‘Forward’ or ‘the Alliance for Reforms’) scored the biggest win – 55 […]
Cosatu Western Cape elects new leadership
The Western Cape COSATU Western Cape elective conference will be remembered for the farewell of Tony Ehrenreich. Malvern de Bruyn was elected as the new provincial secretary.
Report on healthcare institutions in KZN paints a bleak picture
A report by the Public Services Commission has highlighted poor infrastructure and staff attitudes as some of the reasons for compromised health services in KZN.
In California, more and more companies want to recruit autistic employees In California, more and more companies want to recruit autistic employees
Staring at his screen, Dakota Jordan adds the last touches to the cartoon he has been working on assiduously for weeks. “When I am creating, […]
Foreign nationals march for the re-opening of Cape Town Refugee Centre
To mark World Refugee Day, foreign nationals marched to Parliament to call for for the re-opening of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Centre which has remained closed despite a court ruling that it must be reopened.
Unemployed youth weigh in on youth unemployment
Described as a ticking time bomb by analysts, youth unemployment is one of the biggest problems facing the country. We went to find the faces behind the statistics.
Why giving South Africa’s chiefs more power adds to land dispossession
Power over rural land has become more and more concentrated in the hands of local chiefs in post-apartheid South Africa. This is particularly so in […]
“The Gulf is no longer a dream land for Asian migrants” “The Gulf is no longer a dream land for Asian migrants”
In 2015, Mohammed Arshad, 28, migrated to Saudi Arabia from Chittagong in Bangladesh with high hopes. He had plans to build a decent house, take […]
SAFTU wants to reverse the signed public sector agreement
SAFTU has condemned the 3-year wage agreement that has been signed by Cosatu affliates in the public sector.
Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal
In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a […]
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