Brief

Nurses protest against staff shortage at hospital treating cholera patients

About 100 nurses originally contracted to deal with the Covid pandemic have not had their contracts renewed

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Brief | 25 May 2023

Security guards march in Pretoria to demand permanent jobs

Protesters want City of Tshwane to absorb 4,000 workers

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Brief | 24 May 2023

Ward councillor’s office torched in Kariega protest

Parts of KwaNobuhle without electricity since Friday

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Brief | 24 May 2023

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor suspects cable theft as “an act of sabotage”

Power was restored on Monday night to about 50,000 residents following days without electricity

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Brief | 23 May 2023

March in Khayelitsha to mark 10 years of Khumbulani Pride

“There are no other spaces like this” says Triangle Project’s Sharon Cox

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Brief | 23 May 2023

Elderly women picket outside Nyanga clinic demanding better service

They say that there are stock-outs on certain medications, long queues and missing folders

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Brief | 17 May 2023

Over 500 people share two communal taps in Diepsloot

“It’s unbearable living in Diepsloot. We are living like animals,” says mother of two

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Brief | 15 May 2023

This Tshwane police station has not had electricity for three years

Rietgat station in Soshanguve used to get electricity from the train station

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Brief | 11 May 2023

Katlego Bereng buried in Bloemfontein

Family still has many unanswered questions

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Brief | 8 May 2023

New National Lotteries Commission Board appointed

Three new board members named

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Brief | 2 May 2023

Postbank introduces new cardless payment for social grants

But concern raised about how Postbank will handle these new payment methods

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Brief | 26 April 2023

More than 30 families share one pit toilet at this Durban informal settlement

Residents say eThekwini Municipality has failed to fix most of the toilets in the area which are blocked and broken

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Brief | 26 April 2023

Parents and learners close Eastern Cape school

Kariega school is short of teachers, say protesters

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Brief | 25 April 2023

Learners at KZN special schools return to class after boycott

Provincial education department has promised to provide ten buses

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Brief | 25 April 2023

300 toilets were built on this site seven years ago. Now at last the promised houses may be built around them

Families are still living in shacks next to their broken toilets

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Brief | 25 April 2023

Graaff-Reinet college closed by student protest

Students complain of delay in payment of NSFAS allowance

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Brief | 24 April 2023