Student accommodation and debt at the centre of protests on East London campuses
Students from two institutions of higher learning in East London have been protesting for days against lack of accommodation, problems...
Martin Jansen
Anti-Apartheid Movement targets Israel
The council of the South African chapter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement is expected to sit for the first time this...
Sassa card replacement process proves costly for grant beneficiaries
Sassa grant beneficiaries in Khayelitsha say that the card renewal system has proven to be a costly exercise marred by...
GNU differences postpone budget speech while People’s Budget petition falls on deaf ears
The budget speech was postponed to 12 March due to disagreement between the political parties that form the government of...
Cosatu, Saftu and SACP unite against budget cuts
A speak-out at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Tuesday saw activists from four provinces, unionists and members of...
Stun grenades, arrests but no beds for homeless students at CPUT
Long snaking queues have become a common sight at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology as hundreds of students brave...
Pit toilets replaced by substandard ‘improved’ pit toilets in EC schools
Despite the efforts by the provincial basic education department to replace traditional pit toilets at Eastern Cape schools with ventilated...
Protesters accuse government of mass murder in Stilfontein
Activists and concerned residents of Cape Town, led by the African Climate Alliance, picketed outside the ongoing African Mining Indaba...
Doctors, nurses and paramedics protest their unemployment
Gathered at the entrance of the national treasury in Pretoria on Friday, the 31st of January, over 1,000 unemployed doctors,...
Monumental judgement widens access to SRD grant
Lobby groups have described the recent court ruling on the social relief of distress grant as a positive development for...
