Gunmen kill 19 people in “random” bar shootings in South Africa
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Gunmen killed 19 people in two apparently random shootings within hours of each other at taverns in South Africa, police said on Sunday, reinforcing the country’s bleak status as a global centre for murder. Attackers armed with rifles and pistols opened fire in the Orlando East bar in the township of Soweto […]
Anti-migrant vigilante group Dudula stokes tensions in South Africa
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Shopkeepers pulled down their metal shutters and foreign staff stayed out of sight as hundreds marched through a Johannesburg neighbourhood demanding that migrants leave and that their jobs go to South Africans. The march through dilapidated Hillbrow, where many African migrants live, was organised by Operation Dudula, a vigilante group whose activities […]
Tears for Tutu, giant of struggle and neighbour who brought round groceries
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Mourners held a candlelight prayer ceremony outside the Soweto home of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday, weeping over the memory not only of a world-renowned lion of the anti-apartheid movement but of a kind and loyal neighbour. Tutu, who died at 90 on Sunday, lived for a while on the same […]
South Africa losing cultural landmarks like Apartheid Museum to COVID
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters A pair of boxing gloves worn by Nelson Mandela at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa lie under a thick layer of dust in a darkened room, the silence broken only by the thud of moths nose-diving onto the glass display case. The gloves were once one of the […]
Snakes and sewage: Housing troubles grow in South Africa’s Soweto
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the Soweto suburb known as ‘Snake Park’ on how a scheme to rehouse families has left them with homes “susceptible to flooding, cracking and crumbling”…
SOUTH AFRICA: ARMED WITH TRUMPETS, MEN BLOW AWAY STREET CRIME AGAINST WOMEN
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Johannesburg…
SOUTH AFRICA: BAPTISM BY TOXIC WATER – MINE WASTE, SEWAGE THREATEN WORSHIPPERS
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa…