Brief

Eskom withdraws from Cape Town informal settlement after second attack in two weeks

On Monday a security vehicle escorting the power utility’s workers into the area was hijacked.

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Brief | 23 October 2024

Family blames father’s death on local clinic’s inaction

Buti Malinga was turned away from Makgolokoeng village clinic and died hours later

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Brief | 23 October 2024

Families evacuated from their flooded homes in Nelson Mandela Bay

Municipality says mop up and damage assessment operations are underway

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Brief | 22 October 2024

Eastern Cape village still without water 30 years since democracy

Residents in Lugada walk far distances to collect water from a wellpoint

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Brief | 22 October 2024

Over 70 people left homeless after Khayelitsha fire

Fire victims say they do not have the means to rebuild their homes

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Brief | 21 October 2024

Public Works workers picket through the night in Durban

They want jobs after their contracts were terminated in July

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Johannesburg community plays cat-and-mouse with City Power

City Power removed and confiscated 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at R6-million

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Helping hand offered to woman feeding children in East London

The Lunchbox Fund and the Development Bank have committed to providing meals to Zandile Mtungata’s organisation

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Six-year-old rescued from pit toilet in Eastern Cape school

At Mampondo Primary School, 135 learners and eight staff members share two pit toilets

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Brief | 17 October 2024

KZN villagers use social grants to fix broken taps, pipes and pumps

Ndatshana residents say they were without running water for seven years

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Brief | 17 October 2024

PRASA dealt with the Foreshore evictees in bad faith, says Ndifuna Ukwazi attorney

The rail agency has finally returned the group’s belongings, but in poor condition, say the evictees

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Brief | 16 October 2024

Education department fails to pay water and electricity bills: parents shut down school in protest

Failure to pay Msunduzi Municipality is a violation of human rights, say parents

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Brief | 15 October 2024

31 years into democracy and the bucket system isn’t going away any time soon

The bucket eradication programme, started in 2012, has been through three departments and five implementing agents

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Brief | 11 October 2024

Government’s “headless chicken approach” to the billion-rand shoddy national police headquarters

The Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure conducted an oversight visit at the Telkom Towers complex on Thursday

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Brief | 11 October 2024

Durban picketers demand accessible mental health services

About 100 people protested outside the city hall to mark World Mental Health Day on Thursday.

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Brief | 10 October 2024

Vital water project halted because municipality failed to pay contractors

School where reservoir was being built blocks construction

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Brief | 9 October 2024