Brief

After the drought: Cape Town’s gushing water

Berg River’s sluice open, as dams fill up

Over five million children are not getting their school meals

Department of Basic Education says situation will improve with schools returning

Senior judge alleged to have ordered hit on colleague

Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days

NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase

Special needs learners return to classrooms without desks and windows

Education department says the previous contrator was fired for non performance

Community healthcare workers demand “danger pay”

“We need proper PPE because we work in cramped bungalows and shipping containers”

Priest helps struggling Malawians with food parcels

Destitute immigrants receive no help from government and can’t afford to return home

Unemployed Uitenhage men are making food gardening “fashionable” again

Food garden developed during the Covid-19 lockdown is showing results

Five villages share one 5,000-litre water tank

Taps ran dry in the rural Eastern Cape village of Ngquthu seven years ago

Occupiers rebuild demolished homes, saying they have no money for rent

City of Cape Town says there have been 130 land occupations since July

No evictions or demolitions without a court order, judges rule

City of Cape Town told to return confiscated materials

Where’s the train safety plan? ask activists

Protecting commuters should be PRASA’s priority, says #UniteBehind

Soweto households have been without power for six weeks

Eskom says substation will be fixed by Friday afternoon

Flood-hit Marikana residents occupy community hall

Since Friday more than 300 people have forced their way into the Lower Crossroads community hall

Township residents clean their streets after chasing out contractor

City of Cape Town says residents cannot dictate who gets work offered by Expanded Public Works Programme

Soldiers shot me in my shack by mistake, says Crossroads man

Vuyisa Sityebi lost a kidney and part of his intestine