South Africa

Metro police block roads in protest over working conditions

City of Ekhurhuleni says the protest is unlawful

Armed gangs target five Cape Town schools, demand 10% of teachers’ salaries

Police have made no arrests

Fears grow that US may pull funding for South African medical research

Large clinical trials several years in and with millions of rands already spent are at risk

PRASA can’t say when Durban’s Northern Coast line will open again

Agreement not yet reached between Transnet and PRASA

Developer sues Sedgefield environmentalist for R5-million

Tessa Joubert, blamed for delaying the development, says the lawsuit is designed to silence her and others

Open Book Youth Fest kicks off in Langa

Showcasing a range of mostly children’s books, the festival is set to run until next week

Eskom suspends services in part of Khayelitsha after hijacking

Employees were robbed at gunpoint in Makhaza

Court limits fishing to protect African Penguins

By agreement between all parties pelagic fishing permits must be amended within 14 days to protect six key penguin breeding areas

Families charged R5 to use mobile toilets in Dunoon

Residents of informal settlement say they are forced to pay to use stolen toilets

Asylum seekers face arrest while they battle broken system

Refugees without valid visas are blocked from applying for asylum

Only one million grantees have so far switched to Postbank’s new card

Postbank says it’s issuing over 30,000 per day to get as many people swapped before the 20 March deadline

Coming soon: fund to help people pay bail

Bail Fund will address the “injustice of being detained simply because of poverty”

Here’s how we can move to renewable energy in a just way

Mining companies could fulfil their social obligations by investing in these projects

Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool’s speech that made him ‘no longer welcome’ in the US

Two more Lottery officials dismissed after appeals fail

Former acting chief operating officer and a Durban-based client liaison officer were summarily dismissed last year

SASSA’s plans to shorten queues and improve grant payment system

About 1.4-million people still need to replace their SASSA cards before the deadline on Thursday