Who is Andile Lili? and other stories

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Andile Lili sets sights on 2016 elections

Former mountain guide, expelled city councillor, leader of the Ses'khona People's Movement: who is Andile Lili? Pharie Sefali and Alide Dasnois spoke to Cape Town\xe2\x80\x99s best known \xe2\x80\x9cpoo fighter\xe2\x80\x9d.

Pharie Sefali and Alide Dasnois

Activists call for fair employment conditions for community health workers

Community health workers (CHWs) are an essential link between communities and the often confusing health-care system. There are about 70,000 of them countrywide. They do a myriad tasks: visiting and assisting frail people at their homes, educating people about HIV and TB, and much more. But their conditions of employment are beset with problems.

Barbara Maregele

Residents of Lwandle are still homeless

Lwandle residents evicted from Sanral land a month ago are still waiting to get new homes - and to get their belongings back.

Pharie Sefali

Project to map Khayelitsha's toilets could improve sanitation

Two organisations have teamed up to map public flush toilet locations in Khayelitsha. They will launch an interactive website and phone-based reporting system to improve efficiency in toilet maintenance.

Michelle Korte

Open letter to the Social Justice Coalition

Counsellor Ernest Sonnenberg has written an open letter to Phumeza Mlungwana, General Secretary of the Social Justice Coalition (SJC). This follows the report published by GroundUp on the SJC's toilet mapping initiative.

Ernest Sonnenberg

Photo story

Langa protest in photos

Langa residents protested yesterday, demanding new houses. Several shops were looted, roads were closed and police used teargas and fired rubber bullets. Armand Hough took several dramatic photographs.

Armand Hough

Reports

Manenberg gang violence: In display of solidarity, residents come out of hiding

Residents of Manenberg in Cape Town are fed up with the gang violence. And to show their frustration, they\xe2\x80\x99ve decided to march. Shaun Swingler reports for the Daily Maverick on an initiative called Taking Back Our Streets.

Shaun Swingler

Langa in mayhem as protesters demand housing

Hundreds of Langa residents took to the streets today to demand new houses. Several shops were looted, roads were closed and police used teargas and fired rubber bullets.

Zintle Swana and Thembela Ntongana

\xe2\x80\x9cI love what I do, but there are many problems as well.\xe2\x80\x9d - a community health worker\xe2\x80\x99s story

A Delft South community health worker (CHW) had no choice, but to take two weeks unpaid leave after sustaining a serious back injury while bathing a patient earlier this year.

Barbara Maregele

Khayelitsha Inquiry final report delayed

The Inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha has delayed the release of its final report to 8 August. The report was due to be submitted to Premier Helen Zille on 11 July.

Adam Armstrong

Former car guard gets his master\xe2\x80\x99s degree

Former car guard Albert Mpazayabo\xe2\x80\x99s great regret is that he cannot use his new master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in his own country, Rwanda.

Tariro Washinyira

Opinion

Stripping the tears of bleeding-heart feminists and other sex abolitionists

Are Cape Town city strip joints filled with sex slaves? Marlise Richter investigates.

Marlise Richter

Are editors crushing news of SA\xe2\x80\x99s socialist dawn?

Activist-cum-political contender Mametlwe Sebei says news editors are actively excluding socialist issues from the public discourse. Jane Duncan of Rhodes says editors squash or are threatened by socialist ideas. Mandy de Waal looked into their claims.

Mandy de Waal

Towards an Understanding of Braamfontein Activism

Civil society activists in Johannesburg are usually associated with protest marches, t-shirts with cool slogans, and Braamfontein. As an employee of the South African Human Rights Commission, I attend meetings instead of protest marches and wear suits instead of cool t-shirts.

Kayum Ahmed

Activist Beat

The Week in Political Activism

This week we report arrests at a health demonstration in the Free State, the African Union\xe2\x80\x99s recent move to immunise leaders from war crime prosecution, and an upcoming school infrastructure reform conference.

Michelle Korte

Sport

Langa\xe2\x80\x99s national hockey star

A local player from Langa was in the South African team which finished in 11th place at the recent Hockey World Cup in the Netherlands. Siyabonga Kalipa spoke to Lungile Tsolekile.

Siyabonga Kalipa

Cape Town kids learn stick fighting

Traditional stick fighting is one of the sports being taught to children in the school holiday programme set up by the City of Cape Town.

Siyabonga Kalipa