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ITHUBA campaign raises troubling questions for Twitter
How did a disguised advertising campaign trend to number one in South Africa? And how often does this happen?
By James Stent and Nathan Geffen
News | 25 August 2022
Wednesday of discontent: workers picket around the country
Demands range from cheaper taxi fares to a Basic Income Grant
By Vincent Lali and Kimberly Mutandiro
News | 24 August 2022
135 days without water: KZN community at breaking point
Municipal water has not been restored to Tongaat’s 40,000 residents since the April floods
By Benita Enoch
News | 24 August 2022
Nurses at Free State clinic can’t treat patients when it rains
The small, dilapidated clinic serves residents of Intabazwe, near Harrismith - but it is overwhelmed and under-stocked
News | 24 August 2022
Babita Deokaran’s family demands justice for slain public servant
Memorial service held for whistleblower, murdered for exposing corruption in the health system
News | 24 August 2022
Teenager electrocuted in Gqeberha river
This was the second electrocution in the Chatty River in August
News | 23 August 2022
Diepsloot community desperate for electricity to reduce crime
About 600 shacks in Extension 1 have been without electricity for years
By Chris Gilili
News | 22 August 2022
Decades into democracy Pietermaritzburg can’t blame ageing infrastructure for water woes, says SAHRC
Hearings into the province’s water crisis concluded on Friday
By Benita Enoch
News | 22 August 2022
Iconic women’s housing project of the 1990s, today awash in sewage
Residents of Victoria Mxenge Housing Development have taken the City of Cape Town to the Ombudsman after three years of overflowing sewers
News | 22 August 2022