Ben Farmer

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Farmer

When the summer heat hits South Africa’s townships, it turns shacks into ovens. Informal dwellings made of little more than wood and corrugated metal sheets can reach 35C inside during the day and only fall to 25C during the middle of the night. More formal buildings made of bricks and roofing tiles do not get as hot, but cool down more slowly as the walls retain the heat. While this is good in the winter, it can be stifling in summer.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Farmer

When the summer heat hits South Africa 's townships, it turns shacks into ovens. Informal dwellings made of little more than wood and corrugated metal sheets can reach 35C inside during the day and only fall to 25C during the middle of the night. More formal buildings made of bricks and roofing tiles do not get as hot, but cool down more slowly as the walls retain the heat. While this is good in the winter, it can be stifling in summer.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Ben Farmer

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3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ben Farmer

Blood spattered across his face and breathing heavily, the man films himself trying to calmly justify why he has just stabbed his girlfriend to death. Sbusiso Lawrence claimed Nontobeko Cele had cheated on him and given birth to another man’s child. While speaking, the primary school teacher pans his phone camera to a woman’s bloodied body slumped against the front passenger seat of a white car. Soon after posting his confession to Facebook, Lawrence hanged himself.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ben Farmer

President Cyril Ramaphosa has said there is a "national crisis" of violence against women, which he once likened to a second pandemic in South Africa.