Brief

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

Community healthcare workers demand “danger pay”

“We need proper PPE because we work in cramped bungalows and shipping containers”

Priest helps struggling Malawians with food parcels

Destitute immigrants receive no help from government and can’t afford to return home

Unemployed Uitenhage men are making food gardening “fashionable” again

Food garden developed during the Covid-19 lockdown is showing results

Five villages share one 5,000-litre water tank

Taps ran dry in the rural Eastern Cape village of Ngquthu seven years ago

Occupiers rebuild demolished homes, saying they have no money for rent

City of Cape Town says there have been 130 land occupations since July