“Attention for the safety and well-being of the people involved in mining operations as well as the respect for fundamental rights of the members of the local communities and those who champion their causes are indeed non-negotiable principles. Mere corporate social responsibility is not sufficient.” Pope Francis, 3 May 2019.
Work for land justice, mining justice and racial reconciliation
Rape Survivors Refuse to Be Silenced: Why We’re Protesting Outside South Africa’s Magistrate Courts
Week after week, a growing movement of rape survivors is standing outside South Africa’s magistrate courts — not out of choice, but out of necessity. We are there because the justice system that promised to protect...
Read moreYoung Women in informal settlement invited to a conversation with Belinda Gates
Three members of Young Women for Life, a movement representing rape survivors in South Africa’s informal settlements, joined nearly 1,000 people in Johannesburg on October 29 to witness American philanthropist Melinda Gates in conversation with journalist...
Read more“Justice Denied: Rape Survivors Protest Outside South African Magistrate Courts
A movement called young women for life, representing rape survivors in South Africa, has taken to the streets outside magistrate courts across the country, protesting what they describe as a “broken justice system” that repeatedly...
Read moreCatholic Church Calls for People-Centred Alcohol Reform
As South Africa observes Alcohol Awareness Month, the Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC)—in collaboration with the DG Murray Trust’s Rethink Your Drink campaign—has issued a renewed and urgent call for a fundamental shift...
Read moreCatholic Church asks for independent probe on Allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
Allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi on July 6, 2025, implicating senior political figures and members of the South African Police Service, have prompted the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) to call for the mobilisation...
Read moreYears of waiting. No housing allocation
Extension ten informal settlement is located on the outskirts of Tsakane informal settlement near Duduza. It is a vast informal settlement with over five hundred shacks and families who have been eagerly awaiting to be allocated RDP houses by the...
Read moreThe difficult lives of Ekuthuleni informal settlement residents
Residents of Ekuthuleni informal settlement near Springs live in a sea of troubles. This is because they face many hardships daily. most of the residents live in poverty as they are unemployed and have little or no income to sustain...
Read moreNo food parcels delivered as complaints over hunger increase in extension 10 informal settlement
The story of Fezeka Gabuza Fezeka Gabuza is a mother of five children living in Tsakane extension 10 in Brakpan. Unemployed she used to stock fruits and vegetables to help look after her children. Now with the lockdown she has...
Read moreConcerns over housing amidst Covid-19 pandemic and winter chills
Over a hundred shack dwellers in extension 6 informal settlement are in solicitude over the dreary state of their living conditions. Despite many saying they bought the land from certain unnamed individuals they have had to live with no toilets...
Read moreSingle mother’s daily ordeal to feed family during lockdown
Concerns over food security in informal settlements have been on the rise around Ekurhuleni during the national Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. As if not having water or sanitation is not enough many have had to worry about not having enough to...
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