Brief

Protesters uproot electricity poles because they are not connected

The Nomakanjani informal settlement community in Gqeberha has been blocking Addo Road for four days over a lack of electricity

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Brief | 22 July 2022

Murder victim’s friend storms out of Khayelitsha court as case is postponed yet again

Trial of man accused of killing Phelokazi Mqathanya postponed for sixth time since May

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Brief | 22 July 2022

Protests in Limpopo against court “bungles”

Hundreds of Tshikota residents marched to the Louis Trichardt Magistrates Court accusing it of bungling a string of cases

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Brief | 21 July 2022

Teachers and learners at this school use a field as a toilet

Fort Beaufort school has 570 learners and 15 teachers and toilets don’t work

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Brief | 21 July 2022

COSATU to strike over lack of action against crime

Union members will march in Cape Town in August to protest about government’s “lacklustre” approach to rising crime

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Brief | 20 July 2022

Young people stage fundraiser for immigrants

South African artists performed at the Parow Civic Centre to raise money for impoverished young refugees

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Brief | 20 July 2022

Gqeberha mother wants to leave the settlement where her son drowned

Residents of Waterville want to be moved from the abandoned salt pans where they live

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Brief | 19 July 2022

Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted

“I can’t hail Mandela Day when my children don’t have a future,” says Gqeberha resident

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Brief | 19 July 2022

Climate justice coalition marches to Ramaphosa’s office

Unions, mining communities, climate and energy activists hand over petition

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Brief | 19 July 2022

Police commissioner and MEC witness mob justice assault in Khayelitsha

The state officials were visiting the scene of a deadly shooting when they came across a man being beaten by residents

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Brief | 18 July 2022

Cape Town township grannies get tech-savvy

Tablets handed over to gogos in Eerste River on Friday as part of the goGOGOgo project.

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Brief | 18 July 2022

Hundreds of people share two toilets in Diepsloot

Toilets broken nine years ago in Extension 1 were never fixed

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Brief | 18 July 2022

SASSA in Khayelitsha closed until further notice, says agency

Hundreds of frustrated beneficiaries turned away unexpectedly this week

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Brief | 15 July 2022

One 5,000-litre water tank for 5,000 people in Nelson Mandela Bay

“I am not the government!” RDP homeowner tells community desperate for water from his tap

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Brief | 15 July 2022

City opens criminal case against flood victims occupying community hall

About 60 Mfuleni families moved into the hall after floods in June

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Brief | 15 July 2022

Police foil taxi protest over price of fuel

But a shutdown by taxis over fuel hikes may still happen

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Brief | 14 July 2022