Brief

Wildfires leave two dead, 100 homes in ashes

Four villages suffer losses in Nyandeni Municipality, Eastern Cape

“We will hit them where it hurts” warns NEHAWU leader

Union vows to shut down government services, including SARS and SASSA

Toilets near Jeffreys Bay beachfront littered with faeces and rubble

“The state of these ablutions will give a bad image to our town”

Showdown in Dunoon over toilet companies

Toilets cleaned free of charge by Mshengu Toilet Hire as Dunoon residents ban Sanitech from operating

Relocation of 1,500 Dunoon families postponed until at least next year

Neighbouring business owners object to relocation, say there are better alternatives

Students shutdown college over NSFAS payments

NSFAS to visit the campus this week to respond to students’ concerns

After the drought: Cape Town’s gushing water

Berg River’s sluice open, as dams fill up

Over five million children are not getting their school meals

Department of Basic Education says situation will improve with schools returning

Senior judge alleged to have ordered hit on colleague

Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days

NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase

Special needs learners return to classrooms without desks and windows

Education department says the previous contrator was fired for non performance

Community healthcare workers demand “danger pay”

“We need proper PPE because we work in cramped bungalows and shipping containers”

Priest helps struggling Malawians with food parcels

Destitute immigrants receive no help from government and can’t afford to return home

Unemployed Uitenhage men are making food gardening “fashionable” again

Food garden developed during the Covid-19 lockdown is showing results

Five villages share one 5,000-litre water tank

Taps ran dry in the rural Eastern Cape village of Ngquthu seven years ago

Occupiers rebuild demolished homes, saying they have no money for rent

City of Cape Town says there have been 130 land occupations since July