The temperature can reach 45C underground and workers are at risk of heat stroke. They wear sleeveless vests and their bodies smeared with dirt.
In Kagiso, as in so many other settlements in South Africa, time moves on but the appalling conditions persist. Heidi Swart reports.
Cash-strapped groups plead for more funds: Subsidies have fallen so short of the needs of NGOs that many face imminent closure, writes Heidi Swart.
Throughout the platinum-rich North West, mining communities such as the Bapo Ba Mogale live in poverty. Heidi Swart reports on their story.
The Mail & Guardian’s Heidi Swart spent a heartbreaking few years trying to save children. These are her stories.
Non-profit organisations fulfilling many of the state’s obligations are being crippled by its inefficiency and indifference, writes Heidi Swart.
Criminalising child sex could threaten children’s access to health services, writes Heidi Swart.
A rape case in which two men were arrested in 2007 for going on a 13-day sexual assault and crime spree in Cape Town is still in court.
He lived his life for others. But, in the end, Eugene Saldanha left himself out of the final equation.
Counselling organisation LifeLine says the slow release of funds from the National Lottery has left it dangerously in the red and may have to close.