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...
Martin Jansen
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...
Shack fire leaves hundreds homeless in Khayelitsha
A raging fire broke out and destroyed about 150 shacks and displaced about 500 shack dwellers in Taiwan informal settlement,...
Bishop Lavis parents protest declining education standards
Parents and activists from Bishop Lavis picketed outside some of the schools in the area on Wednesday to highlight the...
Khayelitsha school achieves 99.3% pass rate
Joe Slovo High, a quintile 2 no-fee school in Khayelitsha achieved a remarkable pass rate of 99.3%, an increase of...
