Brief

Old age home staff protest after patient deaths

Staff refused to work after 11 of them tested positive for Covid-19 at a home in Uitenhage

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Brief | 7 July 2020

Unions accuse government of breaking promise to increases workers’ salaries

“Workers on duty during lockdown must be paid for risk or danger allowance,” says COSATU leader

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Brief | 6 July 2020

104-year-old woman now has a choice of toilets

Following our report, Elisa Khumalo now has two toilets: one from government, one donated by a private company

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Brief | 6 July 2020

New Era dismisses six workers in Germiston

One worker was dismissed for sharing a press statement that “dragged the company’s name through the mud”

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Brief | 2 July 2020

Covid-19: SADTU members quit schools to mourn dead colleagues

Union calls for Eastern Cape schools to be closed

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Brief | 2 July 2020

Khayelitsha SASSA office to re-open Thursday

Frustrated grant beneficiaries had to travel to other offices

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Brief | 1 July 2020

Limited Metrorail service is better than none

As services slowly resumed, Cape Town commuters generally obeyed the measures put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19

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Brief | 1 July 2020

Sophiatown bursts into protests

20-year-old Cape Town informal settlement has floods but no water

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Brief | 29 June 2020

Vandalism during lockdown drains Motherwell school’s budget

Parents have started patrolling the grounds to scare off vandals

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Brief | 29 June 2020

Taxis in KZN to defy lockdown regulations

Taxis plan to operate at full capacity from Monday

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Brief | 26 June 2020

Family wants answers after death in police custody

Sakhiwo Mbonyongwana died in a Khayelitsha police station cell on Tuesday

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Brief | 26 June 2020

Stun grenades thrown at Parliament protesters

March against gender-based violence marred by group of drunk men

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Brief | 24 June 2020

104-year-old woman has to go to the toilet in the open

Elisa Khumalo has watched as other people in the area get new toilets but not her

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Brief | 24 June 2020

“Commuters have to urinate in the open,” says PE taxi driver

Taxi rank public toilets badly vandalised last year have remained closed

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Brief | 24 June 2020

Families vacate land at owner’s request, only to be moved off new land too

City of Cape Town demolished the shacks and confiscated the material of 13 families who had moved from private land

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Brief | 24 June 2020

Doornbach residents resist Covid-19 relocation plan

About 1,500 Dunoon families are to be moved to Winning Way

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Brief | 23 June 2020