Brief

Five friends die in Khayelitsha shack fire

Families devastated

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Brief | 18 February 2022

University of Pretoria workers demand better pay and benefits

The strike entered its ninth day on Thursday with negotiations between union members and management still ongoing

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Brief | 17 February 2022

Half of non-profit organisations are failing to comply with the law

Department of Social Development claims it is deregistering non-compliant organisations

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Brief | 17 February 2022

Thousands of people have been without running water for four months. No one can say when the problem will be fixed

Tshwane municipality reduced water supply to Madibeng because of huge debt

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Brief | 17 February 2022

Public schools shut down in Makhanda due to bungled payroll

School governing bodies say the education department failed to deliver stationery and did not pay teaching assistants

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Brief | 16 February 2022

Makana municipality faces more court action over filth

Legal Resources Centre says municipality has failed to comply with September court order on waste management

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Brief | 16 February 2022

Land finally cleared for Dunoon housing project in Cape Town

Families to be moved from crowded settlements

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Brief | 16 February 2022

Learners are sitting on the floor in this Upington school

Yet the MEC said schools in the Northern Cape were ready

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Brief | 15 February 2022

People queuing for eight hours outside Home Affairs sent home without being helped

Manager says he is used to addressing angry crowds at Durban office

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Brief | 11 February 2022

Shack dwellers protest for City of Cape Town to clean filthy streets

They also want the City to use labour from their area

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Brief | 10 February 2022

Taps have finally been installed in this settlement, but there’s no water in them

Emakhabeleni households still waiting for treatment plant upgrade

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Brief | 9 February 2022

The “Friendly City” is filthy

Only 11 of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s 36 refuse trucks are operational

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Brief | 9 February 2022

Khayelitsha shacks to be electrified at last

Families were wrongly classified as backyarders, says Eskom

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Brief | 8 February 2022

Trial of former top PRASA official accused of stealing railway line postponed yet again

Mthuthuzeli Swartz‘s lawyer opposes further delays

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Brief | 7 February 2022

Young brothers die in devastating blaze

The fire gutted 11 shacks in Gugulethu

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Brief | 7 February 2022

Committee to decide on Pfizer vaccine for adolescents

This follows an appeal by vaccine sceptics against SAHPRA’s decision to approve this Covid vaccine for teenagers

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Brief | 4 February 2022