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The Social Justice Coalition approached the Constitutional Court in a bid to get the Equality Court to rule on the allocation of police resources. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks The Constitutional Court has dismissed a bid by the Social Justice Coalition to get the Equality Court to rule on the allocation of police resources. In 2014, the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry … [Read more...] about Bid to speed up ruling on police resources fails

Our crime statistics are a poor guide to where police resources should be distributed. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks Lydia (not her real name) lives in Delft, Cape Town. This weekend, men broke into Lydia’s home and stole her television, microwave and kettle. It was the second break-in since December. Last time was worse because she and her family encountered the criminals. … [Read more...] about Beware of misleading crime statistics

Many people who lost their jobs during the pandemic have turned to harvesting salt from abandoned pans outside Motherwell in Gqeberha. Photo: Joseph Chirume Some residents of Motherwell in Gqeberha have resorted to harvesting and selling salt from large abandoned salt pans in the area. They say they are able to support their families with the proceeds. Nelson Mandela Bay … [Read more...] about Gqeberha’s secret salt harvesters

“There are no trains in the station but they say we are stopping the train business. It does not make sense. PRASA is using us traders as doormats for its failures,” said Lucy Boateng, a food seller at Johannesburg Park Station. Photos: Kimberly Mutandiro Informal traders, who returned a week ago to Park Station, say business is running peacefully again. In June they were … [Read more...] about Station traders back in business after court rejected PRASA ban

President Cyril Ramaphosa (centre) took part in a clean-up of the Swartkops River in Gqeberha on Mandela Day. Photo: Joseph Chirume President Cyril Ramaphosa’s participation in a clean-up of the filthy Swartkops River in Gqeberha did not impress Malibongwe Jim who lives along the river banks. Jim was one of several Veeplaas residents who boycotted Mandela Day celebrations on … [Read more...] about Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted