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Public inquiry into the RDM explosion

7th May 2021 Terry Crawford-Browne 0

Peace activist and country coordinator for World Beyond War, Terry Crawford- Browne, kept a diary of the inquiry into the explosion that happened in September 2018 at the Rheinmetall Denel Munition. These are his notes.

Families of slain Rheinmetall workers say the company is responsible

7th May 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

The explosion at the munitions plant in Macassar in the Western Cape took place in September 2018, taking the lives of eight workers and injuring one other.

Joburg wastepickers against “recycling levy”

3rd May 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

The formalisation of recycling in Joburg city looks to sideline the people who have been doing the work informally all along.

Cape Town firefighters suspended for demanding fair jobs

3rd May 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Cape Town firefighters say that they are expected to put out fires while facing disciplinary action, and that they are exhausted and stressed.

Evicted in the midst of a pandemic: Belgium’s housing crisis

28th April 2021 Equal Times 0

Florence has been living in Brussels since 2009 and has spent the last three years in social housing in the municipality of Schaarbeek. A few […]

Covid-19 makes a bad situation worse for agricultural migrant workers in Canada

26th April 2021 Equal Times 0

Maria Lopez begged to get time off to go to church for Christmas. She had worked for months as a packer in a greenhouse in […]

Temporary staff at schools hope for contract extension

21st April 2021 Nkosemntu Stuurman 0

Education assistants and school principals hope that the contract for education assistants gets extended as they are playing an important role in learning and teaching under Covid-19.

EPWP workers in East London demand better working conditions

19th April 2021 Anele Mbi 0

The EPWP workers have vowed to fight until their demands are met.

On the road with Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa beans

12th April 2021 Equal Times 0

It’s 8.40pm. A strong wind blows across the dark night sky, whistling through the large trees that protrude from the canopy formed by cocoa trees. […]

A year of lockdown in pictures

8th April 2021 Lilita Gcwabe 0

On day 378 of the national lockdown, Elitsha looks back at the past twelve months and the pictures we took.

Khayelitsha streets still littered with debris a week after protest

30th March 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Two Khayelitsha based organisations accuse the City of Cape Town of discrimination in the way it provides services.

With poverty rates on the rise, eradicating child labour in Lebanon is proving ever more complicated

29th March 2021 Equal Times 0

On roaming through the winding alleyways of Tripoli’s old city and its maze-like souk, it is not unusual to see children pushing wheelbarrows with boxes […]

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