Brief

Concourt asked to strengthen independence of prisons inspectorate

Sonke Gender Justice asks judges to declare part of Correctional Services Act unconstitutional

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Brief | 4 March 2020

Health Department accused of failing to pay security guards at Motherwell clinics

Security guards were only paid 50% of their salaries in February

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Brief | 3 March 2020

Staff down tools at Uitenhage clinic

Unions unhappy over stalled refurbishment of the hospital after the health department ran out of money

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Brief | 3 March 2020

Refugee mother owed nine months of child grants

Annie Tshimanga given the runaround by SASSA after her card was stolen

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Brief | 2 March 2020

Activists occupy Rondebosch Golf Course, demand land redistribution

“We will come back to build our shacks here”

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Brief | 29 February 2020

Addo shut down by protests

Residents of one of the area’s oldest informal settlements want houses, electricity, tap water, toilets and passable roads

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Families demand speed bumps after car crashes into house

Pietermaritzburg road has been the scene of many accidents

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Seven years after renovations started, school still incomplete

“Usually when it rains I have to stand for the rest of the period because my spot leaks” says learner

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Metrorail comes to grinding halt because of unpaid electricity bill

PRASA owed ESKOM R4 million and was 34 days overdue

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Brief | 28 February 2020

PRASA fails to provide security plan to court

It was due in December

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Brief | 26 February 2020

Real Jobs Summit proposes ways to tackle unemployment

Cry of the Xcluded campaigners will march to Parliament to mark Budget Day

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Brief | 26 February 2020

Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement

Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn

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Brief | 26 February 2020

Armed men assault clinic workers

Pietermaritzburg clinic closed after attack; patients turned away

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Payouts to injured workers held up by faulty government software

New R300 million Compensation Fund software isn’t working

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Khayelitsha shack dwellers block busy road

Protesters want serviced sites but City of Cape Town says shacks were illegally erected on its land

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Brief | 25 February 2020

After being excluded for two years, Wandile, 8, starts school

KZN child was denied education because he has no birth certificate

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Brief | 25 February 2020