Strikers barricade mortuary

Workers’ issues remain unresolved at Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg

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News | 7 December 2018

Angry workers shut down mortuary

Families turned away when they come to fetch bodies of loved ones

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News | 27 November 2018

Workers march to premier’s office demanding better working conditions

The working class are the main voters and we are giving government a warning, says COSATU chairperson

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News | 23 November 2018

Inside the Pietermaritzburg mortuary where workers are on a go-slow

GroundUp found corpses piled up and decomposing

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News | 20 November 2018

Families can’t bury loved ones as mortuary workers on go-slow

Relatives shocked by conditions in Pietermaritzburg mortuary

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News | 14 November 2018

Gogos pay to queue for pensions

Social grant beneficiaries pay R10 to R20 to get a space outside the Pietermaritzburg post office

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News | 30 October 2018

R162-million housing project incomplete after over a decade

“The conditions are shocking. As the government we are ashamed,” says KZN Premier

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News | 24 October 2018

Taps run dry in Sweetwaters

Residents in Pietermaritzburg township spent five days without water last week

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Brief | 11 October 2018

Appliances, taps and computers stolen from crime intelligence offices

We’re not safe at all, says employee

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News | 10 October 2018

Workers threaten shut down of KZN public health services

Department given 14 days to respond to grievances

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Brief | 5 October 2018

Home Affairs official told 86-year-old “to go back to Lesotho”

Mathabo Mofokeng could not access her pension without her ID

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Brief | 1 October 2018

Community stops sewage project for its schools

Pietermaritzburg residents say they want houses to get priority

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Brief | 19 September 2018

Nine-year-old circumcised at school by “mistake”

Doctor and health team suspended

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News | 18 September 2018

Dumpsite workers go on strike in Pietermaritzburg

Rubbish trucks dump garbage at entrance

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Brief | 13 September 2018

Hostel has one toilet for 39 households

“We are being undermined because we are staying in a hostel”

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Brief | 13 September 2018

Peace monument now a drinking spot

The Seven Day War memorial in Pietermaritzburg has been vandalised

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News | 4 September 2018