Brief
Strandfontein homeless site closes
City says Culemborg site will accommodate 96 of the estimated 180 homeless people now living under the overpass
By James Stent and Lucas Nowicki
Brief | 25 May 2020
High Court gives Makana Municipality tongue-lashing over attempt to appeal landmark verdict
Judge says government “ought to be hanging their heads in shame”
Brief | 22 May 2020
Doctors and nurses down tools at Eastern Cape hospital
“People are dealing with blood. They cannot work without gloves.”
Brief | 22 May 2020
Electricity protests after RDP homeowners disconnect informal settlement
“Our electricity boxes trip and only start to work the following day” says RDP homeowner in Mfuleni
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 22 May 2020
“The only time they flock here is when they want our votes” says Pietermaritzburg resident
The City has promised to send a team to resolve issues of sanitation in Mkhondeni
Brief | 22 May 2020
150 people use one woman’s toilet
“I feel for her. If it was someone else, they would never accept what we are doing.”
Brief | 22 May 2020
Court orders City of Cape Town to leave Obs occupiers alone
Interim interdict can be challenged on 3 June
Brief | 21 May 2020
Patients at Mfuleni Day Hospital get medication through the fence
“I thought they were joking” says patient
Brief | 20 May 2020
Protesters bring road project to a halt in KwaNobuhle
They believe unemployed youths from their ward are being sidelined
Brief | 20 May 2020