UNISA students in uproar over NSFAS funds

Protesters close roads in Pietermaritzburg

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Brief | 31 July 2018

Shack fire victims “dumped” at church

Eight families have been sharing a one-room shack for three weeks after fire destroyed their homes

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Brief | 30 July 2018

School children sent home when taps run dry

Ndlelayabasha Primary in Pietermaritzburg is struggling with water shortages

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Brief | 27 July 2018

Evicted students stranded at Umgungundlovu Tvet College

Students say they have not received their NSFAS funds this year

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Brief | 25 July 2018

Durban street vendors “overlooked and undermined” by government

New report suggests local municipalities could do much more to support informal traders

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News | 25 July 2018

Durban residents will take to the streets if City doesn’t clean up its act

Municipality unresponsive on blocked and broken toilets in Siyathuthuka

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News | 24 July 2018

Students shut down UNISA’s Pietermaritzburg campus

If management don’t respond all campuses in the province will be shut down on Tuesday, says SRC leader

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Brief | 20 July 2018

Little improvement at Home Affairs office despite Malusi Gigaba’s promises

People arrive hours before opening time and still queue for hours after the Pietermaritzburg office opens

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Brief | 18 July 2018

KZN nurses call for health MEC to step down

“We are short staffed and overworked. This is the third march this year.”

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Brief | 17 July 2018

Social grant beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues

We feel their pain. Some of the issues raised will help them, says striker

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Brief | 13 July 2018

Playground for rats at Redhill informal settlement

Municipality dispatches rodent control team

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Brief | 13 July 2018

Families challenge eviction from RDP flats in Umlazi

27 families occupied new units fearing they would be overlooked for housing

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News | 13 July 2018

Housing protest in Pietermaritzburg leaves residents in the dark

Protesters burn electricity transformers and block roads in Copesville

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Brief | 11 July 2018

Hundreds flock to occupy municipal land in Pietermaritzburg

Msunduzi municipality says it has an interdict preventing anyone from building on the land which is earmarked for housing

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News | 10 July 2018

“We need electricity, legal or not” says shack dweller

eThekwini Municipality is planning to roll out 18,000 new electricity connections across the city

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Brief | 10 July 2018

Post Office strike halts payment to grant beneficiaries

The workers say they have not received a wage hike in three years. They are demanding a 12% wage increase

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News | 9 July 2018