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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