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“Our toilets have been blocked since 2016” says Khayelitsha resident

Enkanini informal settlement gives the City a week to respond to demands for toilets and water

PE parents demand shutdown of schools

Department reiterates that only the national cabinet can close schools

Eastern Cape’s Covid-19 denialists

As deaths surge, Furnworld openly breaks vital regulations

Municipality “deep cleans” shacks but there is no evidence this is useful against Covid-19

“We want residents to be relocated to better places in order for us to defeat this virus” says community leader

Two schools torched in protest for land

“They are threatening our future. This year is already hard with Covid-19” says matric student

Mystery fires destroy cars on premises of Lottery corruption witnesses

Police investigating arson in both cases

Cooking up a storm: restaurant staff protest across South Africa

Curfew and alcohol ban cited as major factors as the industry sheds thousands of jobs

Lockdown in pictures - Day 118: Fired, fired, retrenched, fired, retrenched, retrenched

Learners demand solid classrooms after storm destroys prefabs

MEC says her department has acquired land in the area. Phased in occupancy could start in 2022

Whistleblower report reveals widespread health care corruption

Elderly, women and children most affected, says Corruption Watch

79-year-old in housing occupation faces eviction

Only 54 houses built in six years instead of 600 in Nigel housing project

Fix our schools, learners tell Eastern Cape Education Department

Equal Education has given the department two weeks to attend to schools with water and sanitation problems

Homeowners and shack dwellers clash over illegal electricity connections

“As long as the municipality does not provide us with electricity, the illegal connections will continue”

COSAS shuts down schools in Alexandra

“Pure criminality” says Gauteng Education Department

“We are the rightful owners of these houses” say occupiers

City of Cape Town says they are jeopardising the allocation of houses to elderly beneficiaries

Lockdown in pictures - Day 117: Family hell