Electricity protests after RDP homeowners disconnect informal settlement
“Our electricity boxes trip and only start to work the following day” says RDP homeowner in Mfuleni
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 22 May 2020
“The only time they flock here is when they want our votes” says Pietermaritzburg resident
The City has promised to send a team to resolve issues of sanitation in Mkhondeni
Brief | 22 May 2020
Evictions: When is a shack occupied and when is it not?
The battle to find out which criteria are used by the City of Cape Town
By James Stent
News | 22 May 2020
150 people use one woman’s toilet
“I feel for her. If it was someone else, they would never accept what we are doing.”
Brief | 22 May 2020
Here’s what the models predict about Covid-19
But beware: soothsaying has a checkered history
By Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen
Analysis | 22 May 2020
“I slept outside SASSA for two days with my child” says mom desperate for help
The line outside the offices in Long Street has been snaking for days
Photos by Ashraf Hendricks
News | 21 May 2020
Covid-19: Groote Schuur on the brink
Hospital manager implores doctors to show up for duty
News | 21 May 2020
Dunoon leaders say they were not consulted on de-densification plans
Provincial government says stakeholder engagement will take place on Thursday
By Liezl Human
News | 21 May 2020
Court orders City of Cape Town to leave Obs occupiers alone
Interim interdict can be challenged on 3 June
Brief | 21 May 2020