Eyewitness News

2 days ago | ewn.co.za | Jamil F. Khan

Fear has been struck into the hearts of many queer and transgender Muslims in South Africa. A devastating silencing has befallen a community that has struggled, and continues to struggle, to find spaces of belonging where they can reconcile their gender and sexual identities with their faith practices. For centuries queer and gender diverse people, across the world, have resisted the heteropatriarchy that demands our invisibility and silence in public and private spaces.

5 days ago | ewn.co.za | Tshidi Madia

JOHANNESBURG - As the DA mourns the loss of its former federal council chairperson, Douglas Gibson, he is being remembered as being forthright and a true patriot. Gibson, who died on Friday, started his political career when he was just 8-years-old. He resigned from Parliament in 2007, explaining during his farewell speech that he chose to become an activist purely because he disliked the policies of the former regime.

6 days ago | ewn.co.za | Babalo Ndenze

CAPE TOWN - Political parties in Parliament have differed on whether whites-only enclaves like Orania should be allowed to exist or should be integrated with the rest of society. They were taking part in an Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)-sponsored debate in the National Assembly, which called the enclaves like Orania and Kleinfontein "a threat to nation building, non-racialism and social cohesion".

6 days ago | ewn.co.za | Lauren Isaacs

CAPE TOWN - A human trafficking expert is among witnesses being lined up for sentencing proceedings in the Joshlin Smith trafficking case. The girl's mother, Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis and his friend, Steveno van Rhyn, have been found guilty of selling the then six year old to a sangoma for R20,000 in Saldanha Bay in February last year.

6 days ago | ewn.co.za | Tasleem Gierdien

The 10th anniversary of the Absa Run Your City Cape Town 10K takes place this Sunday, 11 May 2025 from Milnerton. The City of Cape Town would like to advise residents and participants on logistics for race day. A sold-out field of approximately 15,000 people will take to the streets from Woodbridge Island in Milnerton to Lower Long Street in the CBD. The Absa Cape Town 10K brings together a diverse group of runners from the elites to recreational runners and those who are in it for the vibes.