Brief

Taxis plough through sewage in Port Elizabeth

A drain has been overflowing on Old Uitenhage Road for six weeks

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Small organisation fights pollution in Cape Town rivers

New app for short-term cleaning contracts to be released in April

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Parow residents burn down suspected drug houses

This followed the accused appearing in the Tazne Van Wyk murder and kidnapping trial

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Brief | 21 February 2020

Our children are not safe at school, picketers tell Western Cape Premier

Equal Education activists picketed Alan Winde’s state of the province address in Mitchells Plain

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Brief | 21 February 2020

“Every day I fear for my life” says train driver

Stephanus Louw was stabbed and attacked by three men armed with knives

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Brief | 20 February 2020

Failing pump floods Addo street with sewage

“Our municipality does not care about its residents”

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Brief | 20 February 2020

Cofimvaba protesters tell their mayor to start working

“Once they climb the ladder, they forget about us”

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Brief | 19 February 2020

Uitenhage students close down college, demanding NSFAS allowances

Principal promises allowances will be paid in three to four days

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Brief | 19 February 2020

Criminal record of health protesters cleared

Record expunged four years after court set aside convictions

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Brief | 18 February 2020

Strike by Emergency Medical Services ends after four days

EMS employees in Graaff-Reinet went on strike last week Tuesday

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Brief | 18 February 2020

North West schools call off week-long shutdown

Department promises to start constructing new school

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Brief | 17 February 2020

Protesters disrupt funeral procession for ANC councillor’s mother

Over 400 mourners were stopped on their way to Matanzima Cemetery, Uitenhage

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Brief | 14 February 2020

Taps ran dry four years ago in Pietermaritzburg neighbourhood

Residents depend on a water tanker

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Brief | 14 February 2020

Minister instructs schools to enrol undocumented children

Angie Motshekga has sent a circular to schools to comply with a ruling by the High Court

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Brief | 13 February 2020

Peace Village residents target funeral processions to protest about road

The protest tactic has worked before in Uitenhage

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Brief | 11 February 2020

Families in path of new road live in limbo

Since 2017, 33 families in Mushongo Ville have been expecting to be relocated

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Brief | 11 February 2020