Brief

“Overcrowded” Bishop Lavis school to get more teachers

Activists say they will continue protests at other schools in the area

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Brief | 11 January 2019

Amanzimtoti community without water for weeks

Ethekwini Municipality has promised to send water trucks to the community

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Brief | 11 January 2019

Ghanaian matriculant battles with Home Affairs over documents

Ebenezer Odei has been accepted to study at UCT but his residency status causes funding delays

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Brief | 11 January 2019

Ethel Mavaivai has been admitted to university at the age of 26 - but she can’t afford the fees

Immigrants, even if they came to SA as children, do not benefit from free tuition

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Brief | 10 January 2019

City puts an end to land occupation in Mfuleni

Desperate and unemployed mother says she has “nowhere else to go”

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Brief | 9 January 2019

Durban teen set for Special Olympics in UAE

Home Affairs helps Asisipho Sosibo get a birth certificate just in time to compete in March

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Brief | 8 January 2019

Court rules that allocation of police in Western Cape is discriminatory

Victory for Social Justice Coalition may result in poorer areas getting more officers

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Brief | 14 December 2018

Picket against new coal stations at energy summit

Coal-fired power plant plans are “dragging the country’s efforts to address climate change backwards”

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Brief | 11 December 2018

Award-winning children’s book author Dianne Case stabbed 14 times

Protesters at bail hearing hold up 16 days of activism placards

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Brief | 10 December 2018

69-year-old woman scrap collector sleeps by the roadside

Eastern Cape women spend weeks on the road collecting ferrous metals

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Brief | 10 December 2018

Nearly 1,800 low-income families could benefit from Conradie Hospital housing project

Western Cape government confirms development will proceed

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Brief | 6 December 2018

Informal miners risk their lives to make R25 from a wheelbarrow of coal

Villagers dig for coal in Newcastle

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Brief | 5 December 2018

Fire victims at Overcome Heights want electricity and water restored

It has been a month since a fire displaced 800 people

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Brief | 3 December 2018

Khayelitsha child care principals ask for fee increase

40 principals dressed in black protested outside the Department of Social Development

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Brief | 30 November 2018

Security guards protest at Parliament

Guards demand to be better armed

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Brief | 28 November 2018

Durban Metrorail commuter loses job after train delays

Several commuters complain of overcrowded carriages, delayed trains

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Brief | 27 November 2018