Arab News
South Africa's presidential hotline is swamped by complains and is dropping most of the calls, five months after it was launched by President Jacob Zuma to address poor levels of public service, according to a newspaper report Monday. Zuma, who has...
Daily Nation
Foreign nationals are being attacked with “impunity” in South Africa, a leading human rights organisation has charged. Latest service delivery protests have turned violent and several hundred residents turned their anger on Ethiopian refugees living...
News 24
A 27-year-old man drowned in Bellville over the weekend, the first drowning in one of Cape Town's public swimming pools this summer, the city's director of amenities, Gert Bam, said on Monday. Lifeguards spent 45 minutes trying to resuscitate Anthony...
News 24
A Johannesburg metro policeman was injured and two police vans damaged as protesters and police exchanged rubber bullets and stones during a service delivery protest in Orange Farm, on Monday. "Police are trying to disperse the protesters but it is...
I Africa
Residents from different extensions, including 7B and 8B, began gathering at 1am to close the road in preparation for the protest but, said Mthimkulu, apart from burning the tyres and singing, "they are peaceful". Initial reports from police officers...
News 24
A group of Orange Farm residents say they are tired of being sidelined during development programmes that they believe are skewed towards the rich, said a spokesperson at a blockade on Johannesburg's Golden Highway on Monday. "People are sick and...