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EFF leader Julius Malema. Photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

EFF tackles apartheid legislation

While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time —…

Employers and domestic workers can contribute a national domestic workers’ pension fund operated through mobile-based platforms for easy registration and tracking contributions. (File photo)

Hope for domestic workers

Proposed new legislation would make it possible for domestic workers to claim compensation for injury, illness or death on the job

In Eritrea, certain topics are known to be out of bounds for journalists. (Reuters/Leonhard Foeger)

Gautengers move to shacks and gated estates

Shacks have increased by 204.7% and gated houses by 248.8%, showing a widening gap in the kinds of homes built in the country’s most populous province

The Marikana killings took place at two sites. Seventeen of the 34 miners killed on August 16, six years ago, died at scene 2. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Police defence on Marikana falls flat

A report highlights inconsistencies that demand that the police should scrutinise their actions

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Six years on, still no justice or closure for Marikana victims

As thousands of mining jobs are cut, families of striking workers slain in 2012 still await compensation and justice

‘You see, for some, when they are caught out undermining clean governance for the people, and zero tolerance for corruption, they move towards racial victimhood,’ Mmusi Maimane said. (David Harrison/M&G)

A little light shines for Marikana

Widows have accepted the settlement offer because they have no fight left in them

Razed: Elizabeth Hadebe stands near the rubble of what used to be her home in Kliprand near Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)

Scramble for minerals leaves rural families homeless

Rural dwellers displaced in the pursuit of corporate profits lose far more than just their land

Senior police officials to appear in court for Marikana massacre

​Nine senior police officials are to appear in connection with the Marikana massacre― more than five years after the tragedy occurred

A Rhodes University student blows a whistle during a protest against sexual violence in the institution.

Life expulsion from Rhodes for ‘conduct beyond lawful boundaries’

​Two unnamed student activists have been expelled for life from Rhodes University, while protesting against rape culture at the university.

#LifeEsidimeni: What will the Gauteng government be forced to pay?

Evictees: Fattis was not a hijacked building, we owned property and rented legally

The City has until Thursday to file a report on the alternative accommodation for Fattis residents.

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Mashaba points finger at civil society: #JhbFire ‘was bound to happen’

Mashaba said he knew the fire was going to happen according to findings he had collected, and blamed human rights lawyers

Property owners and investors in Joburg’s inner city say the increase in the hijacking of buildings by illegal occupants is costing them millions.

Landlords have to pay for housing for evicted people and other myths

We dispel some of these myths using what we already know when it comes to evictions and temporary alternative accommodation.