Riverlands families still picking up the pieces a month after dam burst
An investigation by the Department of Water recommends that the dam owner be held accountable for the disaster.
Month: August 2024
Farmworkers march to demand a ban on harmful pesticides
The protestors want Germany to stop exporting 67 hazardous pesticides that are banned in Europe, to South Africa
Government denounced for sub-contracting fight against GBV to NGOs
The march marked the fifth year since Uyinene Mrwetyana’s brutal murder by Luyanda Botha.
Enyobeni inquest adjourned until October as suspicion falls on bouncer
A bouncer’s use of pepper spray for crowd control has made her a potential suspect.
60 Intercape drivers demand their jobs back
The bus company is accused of stamping out any attempt by its employees to join a union, and using authoritarian tactics.
Heineken workers on an indefinite strike in Gqeberha
Heineken workers say they are earning less now than what they earned under the previous owners of the brewery 3 years ago.
Women’s shelters raise concern over missing GBV dockets
The South African Police Service has closed almost 300,000 unsolved criminal cases, including 61,000 of rape due to insufficient evidence
NPA opens rape crisis centre in Mitchells Plain
The Thuthuzela facilities have led to increased reporting of cases and increased sentences but GBV rates remain high.
PSC calls for Israeli academics at microbial conference in Cape Town to be disinvited
The PSC says that allowing Israeli academics, that have no record of opposing the genocide in Palestine, to be speakers at the symposium makes the event complicit in genocide.
Testimonies at Enyobeni inquest trigger families
As details of the unfolding tragedy were shared by witnesses at the Enyobeni Inquest, the victims’ families have been traumatised. The inquest is expected to continue next week in East London.
City of Cape Town evicts homeless people
Homeless people say the shelters are like a prison, filthy and a death trap.
For domestic workers, women’s month marks their ongoing struggle
Domestic workers are still fighting from the margins of unregulated labour where slave-like servitude persists and goes unreported.
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