Brief

Early childhood development groups picket for increased funding

They want the per-child daily subsidy increased from R17 to R23

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Brief | 21 November 2024

Once-abandoned Vleifontein Library nearing completion at last

Construction on the R16-million facility began in September 2022

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Brief | 21 November 2024

Workers have slept outside City Hall for a month, hoping to get jobs back

Their contracts were terminated in July and the eThekwini municipality says it is only considering applicants 35 or younger

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Brief | 21 November 2024

800 families share two “illegal” taps

Mfuleni residents have also had to resort to digging holes to bury human waste

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Brief | 20 November 2024

Five years of water shortages in KZN township

Residents take legal action

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Brief | 20 November 2024

Water crisis continues for 17,000 people in Lenasia South

Residents say water tanks and trucks are insufficient after the municipality cut their illegal connections

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Brief | 19 November 2024

Over a thousand RDP homes built in 2019 still without tap water

Human Rights Commission found significant backlogs in water supply at uMzinyathi District municipality, KwaZulu-Natal

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Brief | 19 November 2024

200 RDP homes waiting more than six months for Eskom supply

“Only Eskom can answer,” says Amahlathi Municipality spokesperson about Northern Node Farm in the Eastern Cape

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Brief | 18 November 2024

Long queues as Eskom meter upgrade deadline approaches

After 24 November old meters will no longer load electricity tokens

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Brief | 15 November 2024

Public Works Minister: Telkom Towers police HQ a “monument to inefficient management”

A billion rand later, the department will either repurpose the complex or get rid of it

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Brief | 15 November 2024

Learners pay R150 to fill water tanks at overcrowded, dilapidated Limpopo school

There are two boreholes at Kutsakeni Primary, but staff say they dried up in 2021

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Brief | 14 November 2024

Thousands of Khayelitsha families have to use filthy toilets or an open field

Toilets have not been cleaned since early October

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Brief | 13 November 2024

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor targets immigrant-owned spaza shops

“These are politically motivated actions against us. There are many more pressing issues facing this city.”

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Brief | 13 November 2024

300 families from Rabie Ridge go to court to fight eviction

The City of Johannesburg says the land occupation is stopping a housing development

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Brief | 13 November 2024

These matriculants have been waiting for their matric certificates for three years

The education department says there’s only one SETA official assisting all nine provinces

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Brief | 13 November 2024