Brief

Unemployed youths threaten to shut shopping mall

Local young men and women are demanding jobs at a Port Elizabeth shopping centre

Uitenhage councillor excludes ward committee members for squabbling over projects

Committee members accuse the councillor of withholding money

Foster parents paid after “technical glitch”

About 6,000 grants were paid late in the Eastern Cape

Little hope for Knysna’s 9,000 backyarders

“I grew up as a backyard dweller and now I am raising my children as one”

Students say private accommodation is expensive and unsafe in PE

Protesters demand municipality convert derelict buildings into residences

Wildfires leave two dead, 100 homes in ashes

Four villages suffer losses in Nyandeni Municipality, Eastern Cape

“We will hit them where it hurts” warns NEHAWU leader

Union vows to shut down government services, including SARS and SASSA

Toilets near Jeffreys Bay beachfront littered with faeces and rubble

“The state of these ablutions will give a bad image to our town”

Showdown in Dunoon over toilet companies

Toilets cleaned free of charge by Mshengu Toilet Hire as Dunoon residents ban Sanitech from operating

Relocation of 1,500 Dunoon families postponed until at least next year

Neighbouring business owners object to relocation, say there are better alternatives

Students shutdown college over NSFAS payments

NSFAS to visit the campus this week to respond to students’ concerns

After the drought: Cape Town’s gushing water

Berg River’s sluice open, as dams fill up

Over five million children are not getting their school meals

Department of Basic Education says situation will improve with schools returning

Senior judge alleged to have ordered hit on colleague

Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days

NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase

Special needs learners return to classrooms without desks and windows

Education department says the previous contrator was fired for non performance