Electricity
Baby drowns in tub filled with water from leaking shack
Khayelitsha residents demand better living conditions
By Vincent Lali
News | 2 September 2021
Families want electricity bills from lockdown to be scrapped
Cape Winelands municipality battling to recover steep outstanding bills
News | 24 August 2021
Delft families waiting for years to have electricity restored
Power outage blamed on illegal connections at Tsunami informal settlement
By Vincent Lali
News | 23 August 2021
Gqeberha shack dwellers block road, stone cars in protest over electricity and sanitation
700 households share three taps and three toilets
News | 18 August 2021
Plettenberg Bay protesters close N2
Kurland residents want electricity problem fixed
Brief | 4 August 2021
Fire kills one man and destroys 200 shacks in Cato Manor
Residents say this is the third devastating fire in eight months at Marikana informal settlement
Brief | 9 July 2021
Siqalo shack dwellers want solar power
Residents are asking the City of Cape Town to subsidise a model they say worked in Stellenbosch
News | 8 July 2021
Domestic worker’s decade long struggle to make her RDP house liveable
Six months after moving in, Nokwayintombi Pateni’s home has still not been electrified
By Vincent Lali
News | 1 July 2021
“I grabbed my son and a suitcase packed with clothes” says fire victim describing a chaotic scene
More than 50 Capetonians have been left in the rain with nowhere to sleep tonight
By Vincent Lali
News | 22 June 2021