The drama of getting her former husband to court to set maintenance for their children was the first in a series of events that left Karen defeated, cynical and a single parent…

Home-based health care is about to replace the system whereby community health workers are the care givers to those in the Western Cape that do not have access to hospitals and…

Monwabisi Booi used to believe that the environment was a liberal issue, irrelevant to basic needs. "It was an academic debate," he says, "all about the saving of the white…

In March Melvin Muggels (18) was sentenced to 15 years for helping to saw off the head of a mentally disabled man in Mitchells Plain. He had pleaded guilty and had not planned…

"I’m in the group, Miss, because I don’t want to hurt other people in the same way that adults hurt me. I don’t want to do it, but every time I think of them doing it to me I…

Boasting about their crime led to the apprehension of two boys who stole a computer from their school in the Cape Flats. The boys seemed destined to join the thousands of…

Five rand for five litres of wine is the Friday reward for a hard week’s work on a Northern Cape farm. The farmer deducts the money from his workers’ pay packets and there is no…

Jan Fortuin grew up on a grain farm in Malmesbury in the Western Cape. He dared to dream that he might farm one day, but knew that his chances were almost non-existent. He…

There are signs that the new fishing quota system is benefiting previously disadvantaged coastal communties.