Brief

Protest at Cape Town primary school over vacant teaching posts

100 people picketed outside Siyazakha Primary in Philippi on Tuesday

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Brief | 27 November 2024

Patients to be moved from Cofimvaba Hospital as nurses down tools

The Eastern Cape health department has issued an ultimatum to return to work

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Brief | 26 November 2024

Gqeberha Pride Festival: sports uniting communities

Hosting netball games gets more people involved in Pride

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Brief | 25 November 2024

Spaza shop landlords shocked by R2,200 permit fee

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is scrambling to legalise residential based enterprises

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Brief | 25 November 2024

Khayelitsha residents up in arms over poor sanitation and “crumbling” homes

SANCO also wants the City of Cape Town and not national government to be responsible for helping fire victims

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Brief | 21 November 2024

NERSA officials forced to call off electricity tariff hearing

Hundreds of Durban residents showed up at the venue on Thursday but the room could only host about 100 people.

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Brief | 21 November 2024

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