Austerity under fire as Godongwana pauses fuel levies and low-cost housing
Residents, activists, members of trade unions and civil society groups took to the streets of Cape Town earlier today against...
Elitsha
Published in Elitsha, a bi-monthly newspaper distributed in Alexandra and Orange Farm in Gauteng, Khayelitsha in Western Cape, Mdantsane and Zwide in Eastern Cape
‘End hunger, stop climate harm’: protesters take demands to Parliament
About 200 residents and activists marched through the streets of Cape Town on World Food Day, calling for the government...
Memorial service held for victims of the Strand mass shooting
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 27 September, gunmen opened fire on patrons at a shisanyama in Lwandle, near...
Make the wealthy pay: AIDC lays out alternative to austerity
The potential to raise revenue by taxing wealth and high-income earners, rather than relying on spending cuts and taxes that...
Limpopo district hospital ‘filthy’, ‘broken’ and leaderless
Filthy conditions, a shortage of warm water, a broken emergency communications system, and unresolved complaints from nurses are some of...
Who controls the food system controls the future
Walk into any major supermarket in South Africa, and the shelves seem to tell a story of abundance: aisles of...
Cosatu congress adjourned after credential dispute exposes tensions
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has adjourned its 15th national congress after seven affiliates withheld their delegate...
Free speech is not freedom from facts
A strange thing happens to a claim when it moves from a WhatsApp group or a Facebook post into a...
‘Like ICE’: Western Cape police accused of unlawfully detaining foreign migrants
Up to 200 foreign migrants have been in detained by the police since the 30th of June as part of...
Marikana’s wounds still bleed 14 years after police massacre
Fourteen years after police opened fire on striking mineworkers at Marikana, the massacre is remembered not only for the 34...
