“Sisi, what’s the use of voting?” asks Pietermaritzburg resident
Impassable roads, no tap water, no clinic, no community hall and their municipality placed under administration for irregular expenditure
News | 27 February 2020
Armed men assault clinic workers
Pietermaritzburg clinic closed after attack; patients turned away
Brief | 25 February 2020
After being excluded for two years, Wandile, 8, starts school
KZN child was denied education because he has no birth certificate
Brief | 25 February 2020
Abahlali marches in support of land expropriation
“We want government to give us title deeds for the land that we are already occupying”
News | 24 February 2020
Black women married under apartheid act win court victory
Judge rules that Black Administration Act marriages are, by default, in communion of property
Law | 14 February 2020
Taps ran dry four years ago in Pietermaritzburg neighbourhood
Residents depend on a water tanker
Brief | 14 February 2020
Fire victims relocated to waterlogged site
Survivors of a devastating blaze in December say the site they were relocated to is unsuitable and unserviced
News | 12 February 2020
Schools threaten legal action over “dump”
“The Pietermaritzburg landfill could be an economic opportunity instead of an environmental nightmare”
By Fatima Khan and Matthew Hattingh
News | 10 February 2020
Union rivalry disrupts teaching at KZN school
Conflict between NATU and SADTU has been ongoing at Emzamweni High
News | 7 February 2020