Tensions between the Community and ELM Workers in Bophelong
Tensions flared up in Muvhango Extension Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) recently resulting in an Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) electricity team of workers fleeing the area…
SANDF Fail to Shut Down Party in Daveyton
On 5 September there was a big party that took place in Daveyton. “I was part of the crowd and experienced everything. I was at the well-known Chisa Nyama in Daveyton and it was packed…
Rethabiseng Residents Abandoned by Municipality
Rethabiseng, Proper Section (East of Pretoria) residents have had a water crisis since April 2020. Residents have to go to another section to get water or run after the water tank, and if you don’t have a wheel borrow it’s hard to collect water…
Xenophobia Tweets Spill Over To Reality
Xenophobia on Twitter is on the rise, warns Kyle Findlay, a researcher based in Cape Town. Furthermore, it’s not just a single incident that worries him; the xenophobic tweets have been going on for months…
Community Clash Over Food Parcels
Community development workers and community stakeholders in Muvhango Ward 6, Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) were supposed to give 1000 food parcels to the needy…
Muvhango Community In Bophelong Clean A Catchpit
… the Muvhango community in Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) cleaned up a catchpit in their area, led by a young man named Moshe Ngidi* (not his real name)…
Dismissed Workers Demand PRASA Insourcing
Former outsourced cleaners and security guards of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) held a protest action at Park Station, Johannesburg on 11 August 2020 where they were shot by the police…
Community Healthcare Workers Share COVID-19 Experiences
The People’s Health Movement South Africa hosted a webinar on 28 August titled ‘Our experiences in the fight against COVID-19’ where they untangled the issues affecting CHWs in this time of COVID-19…
MST encampment is violently evicted
In the early afternoon, police shot tear gas against the members of the encampment. According to the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), the houses and crops were destroyed several hours later…
