Covid-19: Police watchdog investigation of first lockdown death reveals deep flaws

“How can they say that he just dropped dead?” asks his stepdaughter after witnesses describe how Petrus Miggels was beaten by police

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Feature | 29 April 2020

Covid-19: “At least something good came out of this lockdown” says settlement resident

Mandeni informal settlement got six toilets and running water after 10 years of waiting

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Brief | 28 April 2020

Conflict in Philippi over electricity connections

Men living in Ramaphosa informal settlement accused of attacking women in Victoria Mxenge community

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News | 28 April 2020

Hours after agreeing not to demolish shacks, eThekwini municipality sends in Land Invasion Unit

No demolitions, but residents of Khenana informal settlement say they were threatened and harassed

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News | 28 April 2020

Covid-19: Vhembe District village without clean water for three weeks

The municipality says tanks are delivering water to villages across the district

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Brief | 28 April 2020

Covid-19 Report 1: Understanding the most important science of the past week

We introduce a new occasional column to help make sense of the science

GroundUp and Spotlight staff

Covid-19 Report | 28 April 2020

Covid-19: Minister puts a stop to lottery ticket sales

Unclear why National Lotteries Commission was selling a non-essential good during lockdown

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News | 25 April 2020

Covid-19: Autism community pleads for relaxed lockdown rules

“I have no fence so I am forced to keep him indoors. Taking a walk is very important for his mental and physical benefit”

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News | 24 April 2020

Covid-19: Dlamini-Zuma faces challenge over threat to lock-up infected people

“The prevention of the spread of the virus can be achieved through self-isolation at home”

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News | 24 April 2020

Covid-19: You can’t buy warm food, but you can buy Lottery tickets

No explanation offered as to why this has remained an essential good

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Opinion | 24 April 2020

Fruit packhouse continues operations after Covid-19 scare

Department of Health acted swiftly in screening and testing at fruit packhouse

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News | 24 April 2020

Covid-19: Call for Minister to release prisoners

“There is every reason to fear that the virus may spread more fearsomely within our correctional system, and soon”

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Brief | 24 April 2020

Covid-19 and the perils of over-incarceration

Inspecting judge calls for prisoner releases

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Opinion | 24 April 2020

Covid-19 lockdown bridges social divide for Durban’s homeless

Raymond Perrier of the Denis Hurley Centre says it took three days to achieve what NGOs had been trying to do for three years

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Interview | 24 April 2020

Covid-19: Residents protest as patients with coronavirus transferred to rural hospital

MEC calls for eradication of stigma against Covid-19 patients

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News | 23 April 2020

Shacks demolished in Cato Manor

“We have every right to the land and even have a court interdict protecting us from demolitions” says resident

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News | 23 April 2020