Brief

Residents vow to fight for services at funeral for boy killed by illegal electricity connection

Angry mourners defy government’s ban on gatherings of more than 100 people

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Brief | 23 March 2020

Informal settlements rise up against municipality’s “lies”

Roads blocked and cars stoned

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Brief | 20 March 2020

Covid-19: Makhanda residents and Red Cross concerned over water scarcity

Makana municipality says it does not have enough water to stop cuts

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Brief | 19 March 2020

Eviction hearings to continue during Covid-19 epidemic

It will be business as usual at most courts

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Brief | 17 March 2020

Love dispute blamed for 66 families displaced by shack fire

“We are suffering for arguments between people we don’t know” says victim

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Brief | 16 March 2020

Staff protest and students boycott Eastcape Midlands TVET College

Unions and student organisations want lifestyle audit of college management

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Brief | 16 March 2020

“I am living in a toilet,” says eThekwini resident

Residents want the municipality to fix a sewage leak which they say has been overflowing since early January

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Brief | 16 March 2020

Central Methodist Church seeks advice over removal of refugees

“The refugee leadership gave me the assurance that they will vacate the church. They did not honour these commitments”

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Brief | 13 March 2020

Hospital general staff down tools

Uitenhage Provincial Hospital management to meet with union on Monday

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Brief | 13 March 2020