South Africa

Court finds that government failed to feed children

Education ministers must immediately roll out National Schools Nutrition Programme

Lockdown in pictures - Day 113: Sanitising

Clinic without proper electricity and running water for ten months

Staff say they make daily trips to collect water from the nearest facility about 10km away

Courts thwart king’s attempt to control land

Instead R1 billion worth of restituted land will be held by community property associations, which is what its claimants want

RDP homeowners and shack dwellers clash over electricity

Nkandla residents tried to remove connections from Endlovini informal settlement in Port Elizabeth

“We will cause havoc” warn disgruntled church members

Former Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries members lodge formal complaint with Human Rights Commission

KZN hospital shut down, patients evacuated

“Thanks for the opportunity but we will not be commenting” says provincial health department

Johannesburg suburb donates “trikes” and uniforms to reclaimers

City says residents and organisations must work together to formalise reclaimers

Lockdown in pictures - Day 112: Burying our internet cables

Eskom users, fined for bridging electricity, beg to be reconnected

In Orange Farm many residents have been disconnected for two years because they can’t pay the R6k remedial fee

“We want evictees back” says Mfuleni community leader

City says it will continue preventing the illegal occupation of its temporary houses

Covid-19: Children eat wild plants to survive as hunger explodes

New survey shows hunger doubled since lockdown

Watch how Cape Town rain left a neighbourhood under water

Zwelitsha homes were flooded when Diep River burst its banks

Gugulethu residents protest over incomplete housing project

“If we sit back and wait for the City then we might not get our houses” says backyarder

Lockdown in pictures - Day 111: Pop Star

Parliament to order National Lotteries Commission to hand over details of all its grants

Refusal to do so would not “withstand constitutional scrutiny”, says parliamentary legal adviser