A Cape Town NGO, Heroes Academy, is using mentorship, socio-emotional learning and life skills to reshape boys’ understanding of masculinity and help prevent gender-based violence in township communities
The short-trip taxis, which are mostly unlicensed, have been linked to crime in townships
Cele’s swift action in Soweto has been sorely lacking in other townships plagued by gun violence for years
Extortion rackets are part of a corrupt system that includes religious leaders, councillors, police and syndicates
Several vaccination sites were forced to a standstill on Monday, with healthcare workers unable to attend work because of limited public transport
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
Cape Town’s largest passenger rail line has been closed for months, hitting people’s pockets and adding to road traffic congestion
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.
Chipo Mapako, a village head in the eastern Zimbabwean district of Nyanga, does not remember when he last had a square meal. ”The daily struggle for us is to find enough food to stave off hunger,” says Mapako, who heads a village in the district renowned as much for its picturesque mountain ranges as for its dry, stony fields.
