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 […]
Cape Town
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Anti-Zuma protest in Cape Town
Cape Townians took to the street calling for President Zuma to step down following a cabinet reshuffle
Cosatu adds its voice to the SASSA debacle
The Congress of South African Trade Union, COSATU has called for the resignation of Bathabile Dlamini following the SASSA debacle.
Social grants: Picketers want answers from SASSA as the April deadline looms
Scores of social grant beneficiaries left the Portlands Indoor Sport and Recreational Centre in Portlands, Mitchells Plain angry and disappointed having not received the correct grant amount owed to them.
School children face daily deadly crossing
The Old Lansdowne road in Philippi has extremely heavy traffic, which causes hundreds of accidents involving cyclists, pedestrians and cars every year. The most pedestrians that are in danger are school children because they travel to and from school almost 200 times per year.
Philippi residents demand decent school building
Residents of Philipi East have vowed to make the area ungovernable if the government does not fix the dilapidated school building.
Refugee woman’s struggle for access to chronic medication
Despite the ongoing xenophobic attacks on African, an HIV positive woman claims that she was turned away at the hospital because she is a refugee […]
Cape Town organisations protest against xenophobia and “scapegoating”
A coalition of local and immigrant communities and organisations marched to Parliament to deliver a memorandum calling on government to stop inciting xenophobia and the […]
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