Small laundry businesses heavily affected by water restrictions
The current water restrictions are already affecting small businesses that rely on water, like hair salons, car-washes and laundry businesses which are struggling to keep up.
Police corruption continues unabated in Glebeland Hostel
The criminal justice system is quick to blame its abysmal conviction rate of Glebelands suspects on reluctant witnesses. While this is indeed a contributing factor – and for good reason – the whole story is not being told.
Community members take the law into their own hands
Five days after violent protests, Krugersdorp City Centre looks like a war zone. The situation is still tense and people are scared to talk to strangers especially those who have cameras hanging on their necks.
Steel workers in Coega on strike since December
Steel workers in Port Elizabeth have been on strike since December demanding R48 per hour as opposed to the R24 that Agni Steel is paying them.
Community groups protest against “water management crisis”
With just over 70 days to Day Zero, community groups from different communities in Cape Town marched to the Civic Centre to register their dissatisfaction with the way the City of Cape Town has and is continuing to manage the water crisis.
Portfolio Committee on Higher Education urges increased funding of TVET colleges
The Portfolio on Committee on Higher Education and Training visited four institutions of higher learning this week to assess their readiness for 2018 academic year.
Hostel residents forced to repair their own roofs while SALGA secures free housing for mayors
It’s over 3 months since the storm that left a trail of destruction in KZN, but there has been no help from government for residents of Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi.
DA leaders urge citizens to reduce water demand
As Day Zero draws near, the Democratic Alliance’s PR machine was hard at work trying to mend the image of the official opposition that has been dented by infighting as taps run dry.
Activists take Pakistan’s fight against patriarchy and gender-based violence online
Women groups in Pakistan are taking up the fight against gender and women oppression.
No end in sight for cash crisis in Zimbabwe
A South African-based, Zimbabwean-born correspondent shares his experience of the cash crisis in Zimbabwe when he went to visit his family over the festive season.
The gender gap in the electronics factories: women exposed to chemicals and lower pay
Lek (a fictitious name to protect the worker) has spent 25 years checking that all the microchips that leave the factory she works in meet […]
Bosnia’s last female miners
As a result of gender equity in the workplace policies, the workplace has changed. The policies promote the notion that females are just as capable of performing the same tasks in the workplace as males and therefore they should also be fairly represented in all sectors of the economy including mining. But, this has come with its own challenges especially in mining.
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