Brief

Most recipients unpaid after millions stolen from Guardian’s Fund

Justice Department has suspended officials allegedly involved in theft

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Brief | 30 June 2023

Nelson Mandela Bay residents protest high water bills

Water Crisis Committee leader says the municipal billing system is flawed

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Health workers protest at Lentegeur hospital

Unhappiness over payments and workers left jobless

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Woman allocated an RDP house years ago still lives in a shack

Bomkazi Sitela’s RDP house in Mandela Park was illegally occupied

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Brief | 29 June 2023

25-year-old informal settlement still lacks basic services

GPO residents voted ANC because they believed their relocation would be delayed if they didn’t, says resident Thozama Nyathela. “We were only being fed empty promises.”

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Three more G4S prison officials in court for aiding Thabo Bester’s escape

All 12 suspects are expected back in court in August for start of the main criminal trial

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Brief | 28 June 2023

Kariega clinics closed after staff robbed at gunpoint

Eastern Cape health department says five incidents at different clinics have left staff and patients traumatised

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Brief | 27 June 2023

Khayelitsha residents fed up with years of delays in housing project

Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year

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Brief | 27 June 2023

Western Cape NUMSA secretary must be reinstated CCMA rules

Vuyo Lufele was suspended after raising concerns about 3Sixty Life, a funeral insurance company owned by the union

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Brief | 26 June 2023