After The Police Teargas Came The Stillborn Baby
"He was going to be our first son. His father always talked about how he will take him to work with him and leave...
South Africa has been warned that it faces an ‘Arab Spring’:...
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it...
Police unveil new ‘victim sensitive’ case procedures
Days after a deputy minister bashed a woman in a club, Police Minister Fikile Mbalula issued a six-point plan to fight sexual and domestic...
Durban food riots turn the wheel of history
South Africa’s social crisis has erupted as the people Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma deem expendable, those who bear the brunt of the past...
Durban cop sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for killing a protester
A Durban police officer was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on Monday, for the murder of a young woman who was shot during a...
#AccommodationIsLand: “We Are All Here Because We Are Black And Landless”
In the wake of an imbizo held on Wednesday at the University of Witwatersrand, students marched through the streets of Braamfontein to protest against...
Mthokozisi Ntumba who was killed by police at Wits protest was...
Mthokozisi Ntumba was killed by police during a protest outside Wits University this week. Following his death, the police minister Bheki Cele and other...
Committee meeting on student protest policing finds inadequately trained private security...
Greater cooperation between police and universities is needed during student protests; police and universities also need to reexamine the role of private security in...
Bheki Cele opens mobile police station for Kopanong/Skierlik residents
Minister of Police, General Bheki Cele opened a mobile police station in Kopanong/Skierlik, Mamelodi east of Pretoria. This was during his community outreach imbizo...
By-laws that govern urban farming need to find common ‘soil’ for...
Djo BaNkuna aka “The Cabbage Bandit” was threatened with arrest for having a vegetable garden on the pavement in front of his home. He...
Nuclear, security, fees and the ties that bind
In 2017 South Africa has faced rising electricity costs, near drought conditions in the Western Cape, a corruption crisis with the state social grant...
Robbery down in KZN, but Berea remains a crime hotspot
Residents living in and around Berea, Durban are raising concerns over criminal activities plaguing the area, where people are being targeted and robbed in...
Why Abahlali baseMjondolo Won’t Contest In The Elections
South African general elections are nearing and one of the major social movements for human rights, Abahlali baseMjondolo say this year's vote will be...
Izwi Lami: a tech tool for rape survivors
The pervasiveness of rape in South Africa means there are many survivors in need of tools that empower them. Online platform Health-e News launched a campaign...
Two Blasts Rip Through Beirut But Lebanon Is Already Broken
“An accident waiting to happen” that’s how Habib Battah, a journalist in Beirut speaking to Al Jazeera described Lebanon. The country is reeling from...
All South Africa’s commissions of inquiry listed
The ongoing Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, has left many of us aghast. Come on. It must be nice to...
Fundraiser For Collins Khosa Family
Collins Khosa was one of the first casualties of the COVID-19 lockdown. Khosa from Alexandra, Johannesburg was killed on Easter Friday following a clash...
Eldorado Park mob justice: ‘Ons gaan hom dood maak’
A man was beaten to death by community members in what is believed to be a case of mob justice in Eldorado Park on...
#TaxiStrike in Cape Town affects thousands of commuters
Busses were set alight and cars were stoned this morning as taxi drivers in Cape Town embarked on a massive strike in the city.Â
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UKZN students in court after clashing with police in med school...
On Friday, nearly 100 University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) medical school students flocked to the Durban magistrates court in support of two students who were...
