Brief

EThekwini Municipality fixes streetlights in Bester at last

Community policing forum members says better lit streets will make crime prevention and patrols easier

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Brief | 3 July 2023

Makhanda commuters ‘use the bush’ because taxi rank toilets have been closed for years

Councillor says she has asked the municipality for more public toilets in town

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Brief | 30 June 2023

Rubbish in Delft overwhelms City of Cape Town response

City says it spends R300-million a year cleaning up illegal dumps but can’t make headway without community support

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Brief | 30 June 2023

Most recipients unpaid after millions stolen from Guardian’s Fund

Justice Department has suspended officials allegedly involved in theft

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Brief | 30 June 2023

Nelson Mandela Bay residents protest high water bills

Water Crisis Committee leader says the municipal billing system is flawed

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Health workers protest at Lentegeur hospital

Unhappiness over payments and workers left jobless

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Woman allocated an RDP house years ago still lives in a shack

Bomkazi Sitela’s RDP house in Mandela Park was illegally occupied

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Brief | 29 June 2023

25-year-old informal settlement still lacks basic services

GPO residents voted ANC because they believed their relocation would be delayed if they didn’t, says resident Thozama Nyathela. “We were only being fed empty promises.”

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Three more G4S prison officials in court for aiding Thabo Bester’s escape

All 12 suspects are expected back in court in August for start of the main criminal trial

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Brief | 28 June 2023

Kariega clinics closed after staff robbed at gunpoint

Eastern Cape health department says five incidents at different clinics have left staff and patients traumatised

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Brief | 27 June 2023

Khayelitsha residents fed up with years of delays in housing project

Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year

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Brief | 27 June 2023

Western Cape NUMSA secretary must be reinstated CCMA rules

Vuyo Lufele was suspended after raising concerns about 3Sixty Life, a funeral insurance company owned by the union

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Brief | 26 June 2023

Coal truck torched in Gqeberha electricity protest

Protesters were demanding the electrification of about 3,000 shacks

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Brief | 23 June 2023

Taps not tankers say land occupiers in Cape Town

“We are wary of using water from the tankers because of what happened in Hammanskraal”

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Brief | 23 June 2023

Gqeberha shack dwellers protest after electricity disconnected by RDP home owners

Residents of Baloyi informal settlement say two transformers installed in March have never been connected

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Brief | 22 June 2023

Thabo Bester saga: State expects three more people to be arrested

Case postponed again for further investigation

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Brief | 20 June 2023