1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (498+ words) Hundreds of Zimbabwean nationals are sleeping outside the Zimbabwean consulate in Cape Town pleading for the government to help them get back home. On Thursday, piles of large suitcases and bags wrapped in plastic were strewn on the pavements around…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (567+ words) A group of 200 documented refugees camping outside the Durban Home Affairs offices were forced to leave in the early hours of Monday morning, as police warned them they could not guarantee their safety from March and March supporters. The refugees,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (415+ words) To mark 50 years since the watershed student-led protests in Soweto, the Jozi My Jozi initiative invited the public to spend 76 hours in Soweto under the theme "Honouring the Past, Building the Future. The first two days of the commemoration featured…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (390+ words) I will never forget that day," says Seth Mazibuko. We were children on a peaceful march. When the police opened fire, everything changed." Mazibuko was a student leader involved in the 1976 Soweto student movement which organised mass protests against the…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (430+ words) Police in Nqweba in the Sundays River Valley are unable to respond to emergencies because only one of the station's vans is operational, say residents. They say Nqweba Police Station, formerly Kirkwood Police Station, has been operating with only one…...

6+ day, 7+ min ago  (347+ words) Hundreds of land activists took to the streets in Durban and Johannesburg on Friday to protest a proposed anti-land occupation law. Supporters of shack dweller movement Abahlali base Mjondolo (ABM) marched to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and the Durban City…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (744+ words) The future of the smallholder farmers" market in Mowbray hangs in the balance after the City of Cape Town announced plans to auction off the property. The Mowbray Market has been operating for four years on the first Saturday of…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (630+ words) In 2015, Isaac Mohale was approved to receive a government house in Olievenhoutbosch Extension 60, between Centurion and Midrand. But today he still lives in a shack. "I visited the offices of the municipality many times and asked about my house," said…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (280+ words) A Johannesburg housing official accused of fraudulently selling the homes of vulnerable Soweto residents appeared in the Lenasia Magistrates Court on Thursday. Cynthia Ntshangase, a receptionist at the Pimville housing office, is facing charges of fraud and corruption. The hearing…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (628+ words) Honour Charles was one of about 270 people queuing outside the Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria to board a bus to the airport on Wednesday. "I have been in South Africa for 14 years so leaving in these circumstances is very painful....