Articles for Chris Gilili

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Grant recipients unable to renew their cards as expiry date looms

Social grant beneficiaries are worried they won’t be paid in two weeks

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News | 24 April 2023

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Thabo Bester escape: POPCRU urges government to do away with private prisons

Bester saga is an embarrassment, says union president after visit to Mangaung Correctional Centre

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Brief | 19 April 2023

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Centurion protesters block streets over three-week water outage

“My house smells bad because I cannot flush the toilet or wash dishes” says resident

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Brief | 16 March 2023

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People’s lives are “not our responsibility” says NEHAWU leader

Hospitals disrupted as public sector strike intensifies

Vincent Lali, Chris Gilili, Liezl Human, Tariro Washinyira, Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Thamsanqa Mbovane, and Mkhuseli Sizani

News | 8 March 2023

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Hundreds of public service workers down tools in defiance of court interdict

“We have nothing to lose now because we are earning peanuts anyway” says striking worker

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News | 6 March 2023

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“The clothes we are wearing is all we have left,” says flood victim

About 60 people in Diepsloot are homeless following flash flooding on Tuesday night

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Brief | 16 February 2023

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Emfuleni municipality is a mess and piles of rubbish are just one sign of this

With only half its garbage truck fleet working, the municipality is unable to cope with refuse collection. But this is just one of many problems residents complain about.

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News | 13 February 2023

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Queer people and sex workers are badly treated in clinics, new survey finds

Deputy Minister of Health promises to tackle the problem

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News | 7 February 2023

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Corruption blamed for ten-year delay in service delivery in Tshwane settlement

Councillor says the area first has to be rezoned

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News | 7 February 2023

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Hundreds march to demand Ramaphosa address Basic Income Grant at SONA

Civil society organisations want R350 SRD grant increased to R1,447

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Brief | 2 February 2023

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City of Tshwane not coping with refuse removal, say residents

Refuse collection in Ga-Rankuwa is infrequent and illegal dumps are multiplying

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News | 23 January 2023

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Domestic workers urge Ramaphosa to sign compensation bill into law

The legislation was sent to the president more than two months ago

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Brief | 2 December 2022

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Freedom Road – an empty promise

For years Madibeng Municipality has said it will fix Itireleng’s main thoroughfare, but nothing has been done

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Brief | 29 November 2022

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Public sector workers call on government to return to negotiating table

Unions reject 3% wage increase

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News | 22 November 2022

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African women demand voice at climate change summits

“We need concrete solutions for climate change now”

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Brief | 18 November 2022

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25,000 people live in Tshwane’s squalid apartheid hostels

Broken windows, filthy and broken toilets, terrible stink: the hostels are crumbling and there’s no money to fix them

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News | 16 November 2022