Violence against women and children condemned in Strandfontein
The Western Cape MEC for Community Safety, Dan Plato, has called on criminologists and other academics to get to the bottom of women and child […]
Overcrowding and delays blamed for burning of trains in Cape Town
Khayelitsha residents have attributed the torching of PRASA trains and the vandalism of the company’s property in Cape Town last week to the frustration train […]
SAPS ‘catch and release’ policy and the law of inequality
The rumours began on 9 April. Two notorious hostel hitmen had allegedly been released from custody – one from Westville Correctional Services Facility, the other […]
Helenvale residents demand a safer community
Gangsterism and contact crime is reportedly escalating in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas, a predominantly coloured community. Brutal killings and gun related violence are commonplace in […]
Eastern Cape parents take matters in their own hands and build a school
When the Eastern Cape Department of Education failed to provide their children with a school, parents of Dedeni village in Lusikisiki, north of Port St Johns, took matters into their own hands.
Housing Protest Movement Spreads – Building a United Front Campaign
The service delivery protest movement of largely African working class people since 1994 and more particularly since the early 2000s, represents a low-key civil war which has largely been ignored by the mainstream media. However the spread of the protest movement to the predominantly ‘coloured’ working class areas in Gauteng like Eldorado Park, Ennerdale and Newclare has received widespread media coverage because these areas have been politically silent for the past twenty three years and now suddenly exploded in violent protest.
22 people share a toilet in Ekurhuleni
After years battling to get basic services, residents of L&J (Lloyd and Johan) an informal settlement near St Georges Hotel in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, […]
NUMSA vows to fight General Motors to the bitter end
The unexpected announcement last week by General Motors South Africa that it is closing its Port Elizabeth-based car manufacturing plant was met with shock and dismay by both […]
Ex-miners march to Alexander Forbes
An apparent delay by the government and its private financial service provider in processing payments of retirement benefits for the country’s former mineworkers is causing […]
Construction company unfairly dismissed two Zimbabwean workers
Wilson Jona and Kudakwashe Watura, both Zimbabwean lost their jobs as labourers at a construction company in Paarl after they had asked for the overtime […]
The appalling state of hostels in Alexandra township
Alexandra Hostel dwellers and elsewhere in the City of Johannesburg are pinning their hopes on the new City’s administration led by the coalition of […]
A Khayelitsha cyclist appointed to be the transformation specialist for Cycling Board of SA
Bonga Ngqobane, 26, the founder of Bonga Cycle Academy in Khayelitsha, has finally accomplished his dream. He was appointed as South Africa Cycling Transformation and […]
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