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latest news & developmentsAnti-trafficking, human rights groups to reject amended sex trade bill
The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill will boost the industry and trafficking and drive it underground
The scramble for Africa in fine dining
Even if Black cuisine were equally represented, the White diner’s gaze will continue to define it
The European Film Festival hits South African screens
The free online festival, opening today, projects a complex mosaic of a continent under stress
what life; i insist on dying here
Mbe Mbhele meditates on death and blackness on the occasion of his father’s funeral
Unpacking Johannesburg’s myriad anxieties
Anxious Jo’burg, edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, acknowledges the city as a real place and not a horrifying stereotype
Early-morning exercise: Jo’burg’s three golden hours
Under level four of the Covid-19 lockdown, the hours from 6am to 9am became the time when inner-city residents could use local parks to escape the nightmare around them
Police use sjamboks and rubber bullets to enforce Hillbrow lockdown
In one of South Africa’s most densely populated suburbs, the national lockdown is being implemented with force
Police and military abuses raise concerns amid lockdown defiance
Multiple reports and videos are emerging of authorities abusing their power as they crack down on lockdown violations
Malaicha trade goes digital
A new app lets users in South Africa buy goods that are dispatched from warehouses in Zimbabwean cities
Slice of life: The day I met my first friend
I will always remember the day we met in the park
Moving township tourism away from ‘poverty porn’ to an economic goldmine
This is a crucial growth sector in the South African economy
Catch Jo’burg Pride before it falls
The founders of the annual march are disillusioned with its commercial flavour
‘Is fokol is nex’: The South Western side of life
A week in the life of a Soweto flâneur and the characters of the township he encounters
Provincial breakdown of crime statistics places the Western Cape front and centre
Ten of South Africa’s police stations which record the highest number of murders are found in the Western Cape, seven in Gauteng and six in KZN.
1 dead, 7 injured after man opens fire on Jo’burg concert audience
Stolen cellphone said to be at root of shooting incident