Brief

Strandfontein homeless site closes

City says Culemborg site will accommodate 96 of the estimated 180 homeless people now living under the overpass

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Brief | 25 May 2020

High Court gives Makana Municipality tongue-lashing over attempt to appeal landmark verdict

Judge says government “ought to be hanging their heads in shame”

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Brief | 22 May 2020

Doctors and nurses down tools at Eastern Cape hospital

“People are dealing with blood. They cannot work without gloves.”

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Brief | 22 May 2020

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

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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

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Brief | 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.”

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Brief | 22 May 2020

Court orders City of Cape Town to leave Obs occupiers alone

Interim interdict can be challenged on 3 June

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Brief | 21 May 2020

Patients at Mfuleni Day Hospital get medication through the fence

“I thought they were joking” says patient

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Brief | 20 May 2020

Protesters bring road project to a halt in KwaNobuhle

They believe unemployed youths from their ward are being sidelined

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Brief | 20 May 2020

Water tanks run dry in Motherwell informal settlements

“Residents spend time in long queues waiting to fetch water” says community leader

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Brief | 19 May 2020

Glebelands Eight trial postponed to October

Accused to remain in prison due to lockdown restrictions

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Brief | 19 May 2020

Homemade alcoholic brew finds a market as prices soar

“People are bored of sitting at home doing nothing”

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Brief | 19 May 2020

“The City needs to stop destroying shacks, at least until the lockdown is over”

City of Cape Town demolishes shacks built by people evicted by their landlords in Strand

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Brief | 18 May 2020

Doubts over Compensation Fund’s ability to pay out for Covid-19 claims

However, the Fund’s glitchy computer system is at last showing some improvement

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Brief | 18 May 2020

Life was better in quarantine in luxury hotel

Dunoon residents who have recovered from Covid-19 return to informal settlement

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Brief | 18 May 2020

Health workers disrupt wards over lack of protection

“The Superintendent-General was here two weeks ago and he promised to deliver to the cries of the employees”

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Brief | 15 May 2020