Brief
Activists demand end to TotalEnergies offshore drilling
The French multinational company wants to drill for oil and gas along the coastline near Cape Town, the West Coast and the Garden Route
Brief | 4 November 2023
Fire victims sleep outside to protect their plots
“We sleep with our kids on our plots because we don’t want other residents to build their own shacks on them”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 3 November 2023
Roads in Kariega have been flooded for months
Taxi association in Kariega says: “We were promised that the problem would be fixed but it isn’t”
Brief | 3 November 2023
Cable thieves target Mangaung townships during loadshedding
Power utility has spent more than R50-million to repair and replace stolen and vandalised infrastructure
Brief | 3 November 2023
Protesters storm Durban City Hall
Presidential Employment Programme workers received SMSes on Sunday stating that the programme was suspended due to a lack of funds
Brief | 2 November 2023
No clarity on when Makhanda will have a post office again
The post office closed in July
Brief | 2 November 2023
R350-a-month grant to be extended to March 2025
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announces extension of Covid-19 grant
By Sonia A. Rao and Qaqamba Falithenjwa
Brief | 1 November 2023
Two dead in two shack fires since Friday in Dunoon
About 50 structures destroyed leaving 200 people homeless
Brief | 1 November 2023
Hundreds march in the rain in Durban to demand municipal jobs
The workers also want the eThekwini municipality to pay them on a higher salary scale
Brief | 31 October 2023