Brief
Many sex workers are battling to get vaccinated
Those who do not have identity documents cannot be registered on the government’s computer system
By Liezl Human
Brief | 24 August 2021
People flock to Nelson Mandela Bay’s pop-up vaccine sites
“I can proudly say that all of us in the family of four have taken the vaccine,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 23 August 2021
Khayelitsha toilet cleaners work without recommended inoculations
City blames Covid disruptions for being behind on vaccinating workers against tetanus
Brief | 19 August 2021
Teachers demand KZN education department pay them, fill vacant posts
SADTU: “As we speak more than 1,203 substitute teachers have either not been paid or told not to come back to school”
Brief | 18 August 2021
Eastern Cape communities want “death trap” road fixed
The provincial department of transport has allocated R1.5 million for repairs but admits it is not enough to rehabilitate the R58 road
Brief | 17 August 2021
Eastern Cape village without water since 2019
A pensioner says she has to use the little money she has to pay youths to collect water from a neighbouring community
Brief | 12 August 2021
State refused to help immigrant fire victims, so this organisation stepped up
Immigrants who lost their shacks in a fire in Briardene last month were refused building materials by the state
Brief | 12 August 2021
Family waits 11 hours at roadside with body of child killed in a hit-and-run
Three-year-old Mtshidzi Ngwenya was killed at a pedestrian crossing on the N1 in Limpopo at 1pm. Pathologists only came after midnight
Brief | 11 August 2021
“We don’t want handouts. We want land”
Western Cape farm workers picket outside parliament
By Liezl Human
Brief | 11 August 2021