The Scalabrini Centre’s #access4EVERYchild campaign is assisting families By Tariro Washinyira A Zimbabwean woman, who prefers to stay anonymous, says she had been struggling since last year to get her child into school. She went to every school in Parow, but all refused to enrol her child for grade one. As a result, the child spent a year at home. The child...

Rape survivor argues police did not investigate properly By Tania Broughton On Tuesday the Constitutional Court will hear the case of Ms K, who was repeatedly raped in Port Elizabeth in 2010. She argues that the police failed to act fast enough or to investigate her case properly. She won damages in the Port Elizabeth High Court but the Supreme Court...

“We really need this grant, as small as it may appear” By Tariro Washinyira and Mkhuseli Sizani Beneficiaries of the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, which has been discontinued, are hoping the government will change its mind on the R350-a-month grant. Beneficiaries who had not yet been paid out for January queued yesterday at post offices around the country. They said the...

SASSA has proposed a ten-point plan to deal with backlogs By Mary-Anne Gontsana and GroundUp Staff The Black Sash has called on SASSA to extend temporary disability grants to the end of March. More than 200,000 grants, which had been extended for six months, lapsed on 31 December and beneficiaries have been queueing outside SASSA offices to renew them. SASSA says it cannot...

Many labourers in the Sundays River Valley have never seen a cent after suffering debilitating pain and even disability from accidents while at work. A non-profit trust wants to change this. By Anna Majavu and Bonile Bam Working outdoors in an orchard of orange trees or on a game farm in a beautiful valley is not as pleasant as it sounds....

One resident says she has to buy buckets of water daily from other community members with boreholes By Bernard Chiguvare Hundreds of protestors marched to Makhado Local Municipality offices in Louis Trichardt on Monday to demand a regular supply of clean water, that sewage be fixed timeously and that roads be fixed. The municipality promised to resolve the water issues in...

Domestic workers should earn the same by 2022, say majority of commissioners By James Stent Nine of the 12 members of the National Minimum Wage Commission have recommended a 4.5% increase to R21.68 an hour next year. This is higher than the current annual inflation rate of 3%. The other three members, representing business, said the increase should be limited to...

But the CEO of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services can still be disciplined by the Justice Department  By Tania Broughton The Constitutional Court has confirmed, in part, that the law affecting the independence of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services falls foul of the Constitution. Parliament now has 24 months to amend provisions of the Correctional Services Act which effectively makes the...

You are cordially invited by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development, the South African Human Rights Commission, The Project Justice Trust and Constitution Hill to join us in commemorating this auspicious day. On this day we will celebrate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in...

The Nelson Mandela Foundation in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invite you to a dialogue marking the 7th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's passing