Brief

Marchers call for job security and a basic income grant

Picketers in PE mark 1 August as national day for working class action

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Brief | 3 August 2020

Unregistered ECD principals plead with government

“Some of our teachers are resorting to occupying vacant land because they have no money to pay rent”

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Brief | 31 July 2020

Land occupations displace initiation schools

“If they build their shacks on these sites, what will happen to their culture?”

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Brief | 31 July 2020

Wear a mask or face a fine, taxi associations warn drivers

“We are pleading with them to always wear their masks, sanitise and wash their hands before and after every trip”

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Brief | 30 July 2020

15km queue at Zimbabwe border

Truck drivers say they’ve been stuck for three days

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Dozens of brick and mortar homes built by occupiers demolished on Monday

Public Works claims it only demolished newly built and incomplete homes

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Family of 13 living in a shack have “tried everything” but “there are just no jobs”

“I am trying my best to get them a house or a decent place to live in,” says ward councillor

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Toilets overflow for a month as City drains clog up

City blames blockages on “misuse of the sewer system”

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Covid-19: Hospital staff picket in Pietermaritzburg

Workers demand better protection from infection

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Protest over toilets turns violent in Uitenhage

Project to build toilets for Bobani Village was halted by internal politics

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Brief | 28 July 2020

24 arrested in protest against Pietermaritzburg ward councillor

“I was chosen by people of ward 29 not by a few individuals” says ANC’s Spha Madlala

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Brief | 28 July 2020

Loadshedding “unavoidable” after substation blows, says mayor

Power restored in Pietermaritzburg community after protesters bring area to standstill over five-day blackout

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Brief | 27 July 2020

Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics

Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee

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Brief | 27 July 2020

“Our toilets have been blocked since 2016” says Khayelitsha resident

Enkanini informal settlement gives the City a week to respond to demands for toilets and water

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Brief | 23 July 2020

PE parents demand shutdown of schools

Department reiterates that only the national cabinet can close schools

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Brief | 23 July 2020

Homeowners and shack dwellers clash over illegal electricity connections

“As long as the municipality does not provide us with electricity, the illegal connections will continue”

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Brief | 22 July 2020