STEVEN LANG Rhodes University students and Makhanda citizens braved a misty drizzle to express their frustration with the way leaders of the Makana Municipality Council are doing their jobs. Students began gathering on Wdnesday February…
UPDATE AT 3.30pm (voice of Unathi Binqose, Department of Transport spokesperson): ORIGINAL POST: The situation in Mthatha is tense with many roads coming into and out of Mthatha still closed since this morning, South African Police…
Burning tyres and protesters blocked the R343 next to ekuPhumleni, approaching the R72 near Kenton-on-Sea, as well as the main entrance to ekuphumleni, early this morning, Monday May 27. This is according to sources at the scene. Police…
NATJOINTS UPDATE AS AT 07:00AM Law enforcement officers through the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) have in the last 12 hours arrested 87 protestors across the country for public violence related…
BY LWAZI HLANGU Police minister Bheki Cele has urged law enforcement officers to enforce the law but withstanding provocation after Julius Malema’s “war statement” ahead of Monday’s national shutdown. Cele said the EFF leader’s call for…
STEVEN LANG Makhanda residents have long become used to a “one day on, one day off” routine when it comes to water supply. But in recent weeks, residents have at times gone for days at a time without water and frustrated residents…
Members of the Port Alfred and Nemato Infrastructure Concerns (Panic) group handed over a memorandum of grievances and demands regarding the municipal water supply to Ndlambe municipal manager Rolly Dumezweni outside the Port Alfred Civic…
Members of the Port Alfred and Nemato Infrastructure Concerns (Panic) group staged a demonstration outside the Port Alfred Civic Centre on Tuesday morning, November 23, just before the inauguration of the new Ndlambe council. Residents…
President said during a national address on Monday night that ‘we will be mobilising all available resources and capacities to restore order in our country’ President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday vowed to “restore calm and order”, as violent…
A group of campaigners picketed outside the St George’s Cathedral on June 9 and afterwards marched to parliament protesting the unfair dismissal of former Western Cape head of detectives Major-General Jeremy Vearey. He was dismissed after…
On Saturday activists under the World Wide Rally for Freedom banner gathered in Hanover Street in Cape Town. The events were called to oppose global Covid-19 restrictions including the wearing of masks and also against the taking of the…
The Zama Zam community in Nemato, Port Alfred, protested the bail application of two men the community captured during an apparent xenophobic attack. Two of the attackers escaped the community and are still at large.
Hundreds of EFF supporters marched towards Brackenfell High School in Cape Town on Friday November 20 2020, a sequel to their protest last week against alleged racism at the institution. When EFF members tried to break through police…
During a speech by EFF Secretary General Marshall Dlamini in Brackenfell on November 20 2020, a white man entered the EFF protest against alleged racism at Brackenfell high school. The man was subsequently assaulted by dozens of EFF…
Police used stun grenades to disperse a crowd of Pan Africanist Congress members who marched towards Brackenfell High School on November 18 2020 to protest against alleged racism at the institution. The follows an earlier protest by EFF…
