Residents thank Covid-19 pandemic for sanitation
After 23 years using a pit latrine, community gets chemical toilets
Brief | 19 June 2020
Durban fire leaves 150 people homeless and one dead
One of two serious shack fires in city in 24 hours
Brief | 15 June 2020
Covid-19: Durban customers fed-up with bad hair days
Hairstylists find ways to work while salons are closed
News | 15 June 2020
Pietermaritzburg schools shut down by protesters demanding water
“They must give water to the community before the schools”
Brief | 9 June 2020
Shack dwellers’ vegetable co-operative funds new toilets, masks and sanitisers
Vegetable gardens have changed life in Durban informal settlement
News | 4 June 2020
KZN scrambling to get school with no toilets and water ready for learners
KZN education MEC says infrastructure problems at Insika High could be resolved soon
News | 3 June 2020
KwaMashu paramedics refuse to work until they’re tested for Covid-19
They have been told only symptomatic people would be tested, despite asymptomatic colleague testing positive
Brief | 3 June 2020
Mounting pressure on families holding out against coal mine expansion
“We know that if we are not here, our house will be burnt down”
By Fred Kockott and Matthew Hattingh
Feature | 3 June 2020