Brief

Simple games help children learn to read

Even a cereal box can be a useful teaching tool

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Brief | 19 September 2023

Three people die in shack fire in Joe Slovo Park

73 people left homeless by the blaze on Saturday night

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Brief | 19 September 2023

Hundreds queue in Cape Town city centre in hope of a job

Mostly young people stand in line for hours

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Brief | 14 September 2023

Durban vendors say they pay their fees but the municipality ignores them

Lights at the Berea bus rank where they trade have been broken for five years

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Brief | 13 September 2023

Pensioners are still struggling to access grants, a week after “system glitch”

Black Sash says it’s been inundated with calls

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Brief | 12 September 2023

51 people homeless after fire in Dunoon

“My whole life was in that shack”

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Brief | 12 September 2023

Four years and R7-million later, villages still sit without power

Mzimvubu Municipality has been incapable of finishing an electrification project it started in 2018

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Brief | 12 September 2023

Zimbabweans in SA march to demand elections be nullified

“We just want to go home,” protesters chanted

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Brief | 8 September 2023

Two children were electrocuted here in 2021, but Zone 14 is still waiting for safe electricity

eThekwini municipality says it can’t electricify the shacks because the informal settlement is on private land

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Brief | 7 September 2023

Fire safety review in Cape Town buildings after tragic Johannesburg fire

Ndifuna Ukwazi and Reclaim the City plan to strengthen fire safety protocols in two buildings occupied by activists

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Brief | 6 September 2023

Learners’ complaints ignored at crumbling Tsakane school

“Every toilet has a crack,” says J.E Malepe Secondary learner Samkelo Mthethwa

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Brief | 5 September 2023

Nandipha Magudumana’s kidnapping claim questioned by state

Magudumana has “a right to liberty” until convicted, court told

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Brief | 4 September 2023

Protesters support vigilante taxi drivers outside KwaNobuhle court

Five “jikeleza” drivers charged with attempted murder

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Brief | 4 September 2023

Elderly Gugulethu women celebrated at end of Women’s Month

“Our own children don’t take care of us, they neglect us. These clubs help us feel accepted and loved” says pensioner.

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Brief | 1 September 2023

Unprotected strike leaves foul stench, piles of refuse across Mamelodi

Waste collection teams are being escorted by metro police in some areas amid violent threats by strikers

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Brief | 31 August 2023

Land for relocation of railway line occupiers to be assessed within two weeks

SCOPA chair tells ministers and mayor to get on with it

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Brief | 29 August 2023