Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil; churches appeal for it to stop
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or burned shopping malls in South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens reported killed as grievances unleashed by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in years. Protests that followed Zuma’s arrest last week have widened into looting and an outpouring […]
Wow!: In South Africa, a zero-waste food bus hopes to drive away hunger
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Johannesburg…
Postcards: Taxis for ladies put the brakes on crime in South African city
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Johannesburg on a new initiative to help improve the safety of women…
Five dead in hostage situation at troubled South Africa church
Johannesburg, South AfricaAP Five people are dead and more than 40 have been arrested after an early-morning hostage situation at a long-troubled church near Johannesburg, police in South Africa said Saturday. A statement said police and military who responded to reports of a shooting at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church headquarters in Zuurbekom found four […]
URBAN FARMS: “MY HANDS ARE MY TRACTOR” – WHY GARDENS ARE TAKING ROOT IN JOHANNESBURG
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa on how urban farmers are helping the fight against hunger…
POSTCARDS: JOHANNESBURG SEEKS TO AVERT “ECOLOGICAL DISASTER” FROM BEETLE-INFESTED TREES
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
“This is our story”: Photographs reimagine South African inequality
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Photographs of South African children in after-school tutoring groups and a mother and son carrying seedlings are among 30-odd images lining the walls of the old Women’s Jail, which once housed political prisoners like Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The exhibition in Johannesburg’s former prison complex – where thousands of women were held […]
SOUTH AFRICA: “WE FEEL FREE” – CYCLISTS RIDE THROUGH APARTHEID’S SPATIAL DIVIDES
KIM HARRISBERG, writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at how a cycling initiative is breaking down barriers…
Rock star Bono ‘deeply sorry’ over bullying claims at his charity
Thomson Reuters Foundation Irish rock star Bono apologised at the weekend over claims that staff at an anti-poverty charity he set up were bullied and intimidated, in the latest case of staff misconduct at a leading global charity. Bono said he was “furious” to hear a string of accusations of bad conduct within the ONE […]