Brief

Residents demand transport for learners who walk up to 9km

Department promises emergency transport this week

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Brief | 13 January 2020

Scores attend funeral of poisoned children in Motherwell

Families considering legal action against municipality

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Brief | 13 January 2020

No pay, no work: Eastern Cape ambulance drivers down keys

They say back-pay owed to them was promised by 6 January

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Brief | 10 January 2020

Greenmarket Square refugees have split into “two hostile groups”

Reverend Alan Storey’s church has provided shelter to hundreds of people for months but the situation has become untenable

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Brief | 10 January 2020

Thousands wait for hours at understaffed Beitbridge border

Nearly 60,000 people crossed the border back into South Africa over a 24-hour period last week

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Brief | 10 January 2020

Toilet cleaners battle to get detergents and equipment from Buffalo City Municipality

Cleaners say they pay for their own cleaning materials

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Brief | 9 January 2020

Pigs feast on human excrement as township drain overflows

KwaNobuhle residents have been complaining about leaks for two years, they say

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Brief | 9 January 2020

City to move against Greenmarket Square refugees

Refugee leader says they remain “hopeful” that City will provide temporary shelter

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Brief | 8 January 2020

“We grew up as backyarders and we are still backyarders today”

Arcadia House occupiers plead for affordable housing near Cape Town’s inner city

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Brief | 8 January 2020

Donkerbos residents lift bakkie to safety during blaze

About 30 people displaced following fire at Somerset West informal settlement

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Brief | 6 January 2020

Murder of lesbian prompts Mpumalanga march against violence

800 people march after Portia Mtsweni killed in Tweefontein

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Brief | 6 January 2020

Khayelitsha commuters plan transport summit for February

“We have found that commuter safety is also not up to standard”

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Brief | 18 December 2019

City to use bylaws to remove refugees

Smith says failure to do this will have dire consequences for the informal traders on Greenmarket Square

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Brief | 18 December 2019

Open trench poses safety risk, say Uitenhage residents

Municipality says complaints will be “escalated as matter of urgency”

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Brief | 17 December 2019

Learners demand toilets and water for Limpopo schools

Department claims construction at schools will start January 2020

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Brief | 13 December 2019