Brief

Covid-19: Health minister calls for volunteers

NGOs and retired medical professionals especially needed

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Brief | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Residents lend a helping hand to waste picker in Benoni

“If many people offer help to waste pickers during this difficult time of the coronavirus, South Africa will be a better place,” says waste picker

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Brief | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Shack dwellers desperate for water in Uitenhage

Mayoral coordinator promises sanitisers and water

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Brief | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Homeless, unemployed and stuck in South Africa

Limpopo moves people living on the streets into shelters

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Brief | 8 April 2020

Covid-19: Children allowed to move between parents’ households - in some cases

Regulations changed on Tuesday to assist separated families

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Brief | 8 April 2020

Covid-19: Textile industry agrees on temporary relief for employees

This is one of the first of several similar agreements being negotiated across different industries

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Brief | 7 April 2020

Covid-19: Hairdresser’s battle to survive

“I have never been scared like this before”

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Brief | 7 April 2020

Covid-19: George residents thankful for its many soup kitchens

About 80 feeding schemes are operating during the lockdown, many from people’s backyards

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Brief | 7 April 2020

Covid-19: Informal settlement gets long-awaited toilets

“The municipality should not wait to act when there are pandemics like [Covid-19] to provide residents with basic services” says PE resident

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Brief | 6 April 2020