Juane Jacobs is a prisoner at Leeuwkop in Johannesburg. He is extremely ill but he has been denied medical parole. Are double standards being used to determine who gets medical parole in South African correctional facilities?
21 September 2021
Diepsloot in Johannesburg has become a dumping ground for rubbish. Parts of the township look unsightly. But two residents are turning a messy situation into a job-creation opportunity that removes rubbish.
17 September 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has exhausted health workers. To boost morale, musicians Graham Alexander and Colin September are performing in the hallways of hospitals.
13 September 2021
Winston Spencer Cogill is full of praise for the staff that saved his life
7 July 2021
More than a year after his death, and months after the police watchdog implicated eight officers in murder, police management has not acted.
7 July 2021
A terrible rainstorm in Cape Town has flooded shacks in Kraaifontein.
1 July 2021
UNICEF is helping people to register on government’s EVDS system
By Ashraf Hendricks and James Stent
10 June 2021
In this video Makgosi Letimile explains how she used sex toys to help relieve incontinence
8 June 2021
2 June 2021
“We kept getting patients who were already dead”
By James Stent and Mary-Anne Gontsana
2 June 2021
“I want to go to my favourite spot, Bloubergstrand, and just sit and look at the ocean, and look at Table Mountain from there. It’s the most wonderful sight in the world.”
1 June 2021
Kalib Missoe runs an after school dominoes club in Belhar, Cape Town
28 May 2021
Readers tell us there are other places as bad as Bering Street in Kariega
26 May 2021
This video shows the awful state of Bering Street in KwaNobuhle, Kariega (formerly Uitenhage). It was filmed on 17 May.
19 May 2021
People sleep outside a SASSA office through the night hoping they will be served the next day
By Ashraf Hendricks and Liezl Human
11 May 2021