Seven days of protest at UWC and it’s still #UWCShutdown
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) remains shut down, with the university’s management and students caught in a deadlock. The student body is...
How Cyrildene’s Derrick Avenue transformed into Chinatown
Walking down Derrick Avenue in Cyrildene on a Tuesday morning will make you think you are walking down a street in a Chinese city....
Expedition Imashi: Retracing the footsteps of 7,000 miners during the South...
On the morning of January 1, 24-year old urban geographer Brandon Finn started running 40km a day for 10 days in tribute to an...
World Preemie Day: Help a tiny baby live another day
A heart-wrenching new video from the Newborns Trust, a special trust set up to support the neonatal unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape...
The short hop from Zuma’s fire pool to Magashule’s pool house
South Africans haven’t yet gotten over President Jacob Zuma’s personal fire pool and now it’s emerged that R8-million in public funds has been used to...
Should bearded men be allowed to work in the food industry?
On Wednesday, community radio station, Radio Islam reported that two interns from the Capsicum Culinary School in Durban were prevented from completing a four-month internship...
In pursuit of better healthcare for SA’s tiniest babies
Tucked away in a separate building behind Groote Schuur Hospital, is a tiny unit doing extraordinary work for tiny people.
“People in the main hospital...
Nzimande latest South African to be denied Israeli visa over pro-Palestinian...
There was a diplomatic kerfuffle when higher education minister Blade Nzimande was denied a visa by the Israeli government on Thursday. But given Nzimande’s...
Adorable orca pod brings excitement to Cape shores [PICTURES]
One of the largest pods of killer whales, or orcas, in South Africa was spotted off the shores of Simon’s Town this week. AAISHA...
For some of the CAR’s displaced children, school is all they...
Over 20, 000 refugees who have fled violence in  the Central African Republic (CAR) still inhabit the Mpoko refugee camp at the Bangui airport....
A letter from Johannesburg, after the xenophobia died down
Friends,
Coming back to Johannesburg after months of absence feels a little surreal. Not surreal as in dreamlike, but normal, yet simultaneously strange. The city...
The Weekly Dissident: Don’t shoot me here, shoot me there (Dunoon...
Today in the Weekly Dissident, guest writer KHAYA MASEKO reflects on the miserable life of the wretched of Mzansi.
This writer is in Dunoon...
