Articles for Silver Sibiya

Hijacked building fire survivors say their new living conditions are unbearable

Four people died and more than 200 people were displaced when a fire broke out at yet another hijacked building in Jeppestown

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News | 27 August 2024

Glencore urged to stop selling coal to Israel

Unions and civic organisations gather at mining company’s head office

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News | 22 August 2024

Fired security guards have been sleeping outside health department in Johannesburg for four months

They say they are owed money and want the department to intervene with their former employers

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News | 16 August 2024

Water at last after protest blocks N12

City of Johannesburg sends water tanks to Nana’s Farm

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Brief | 9 August 2024

Power restored to Diepsloot welfare organisations at last

Lawyers against Abuse director says they are now able to provide counselling sessions without the constant noise of the generator

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Brief | 5 August 2024

Joburg community plays cat-and-mouse with City Power over illegal connections

City Power technicians removed over 18,000 kilogrammes of illegal wiring on Wednesday. But minutes after they left, people were seen making new electricity connections

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News | 1 August 2024

Pressure mounts for Gwamanda to be removed as Joburg Mayor

Hundreds protest in Braamfontein

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News | 29 July 2024

Protesters block N12, demand toilets, water

“Children as young as seven years old fight for water with old people”

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Brief | 23 July 2024

Government contractor misses yet another deadline on R123-million Gauteng school

Construction of the project started in 2022 to accommodate the school’s 1,200 learners

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Brief | 23 July 2024

No electricity for Diepsloot welfare organisations

Eskom says broken transformer can’t be fixed again because the area is high risk

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News | 15 July 2024

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation joins call for library to be reopened

The Louisa Prince Library in Ennerdale has been closed since 2021

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News | 5 July 2024

Sibanye-Stillwater miners who staged underground protest resurface in Rustenburg

They staged a sit-in strike over unpaid employee share ownership scheme funds. But the company says they do not qualify yet.

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Brief | 6 June 2024

Eskom demands Evaton households pay for broken transformer

Residents have to each pay R6,000 over six months, otherwise they won’t be reconnected, says the power utility

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News | 30 May 2024

Councillor denies giving people permission to occupy land in Johannesburg

The occupiers are mostly backyarders and tenants who say they could no longer afford to pay rent or buy a house. They have been clearing the open field for a week now.

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News | 24 May 2024

Dozens of shacks demolished in Midrand

Shackdwellers say they’ll keep rebuilding because they have nowhere else to go

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News | 14 May 2024

Activists and patients march on Gauteng health department demanding radiation treatment

Nearly R800-million set aside for radiation treatment outsourcing has not been spent

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News | 30 April 2024