Brief

Confusion over school resumption

Conflicting messages sent to teachers, parents and learners

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Brief | 31 May 2020

NPA and IPID commit to tackling high-level police corruption

This comes after two investigators were pulled from task team

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Brief | 29 May 2020

R92 million and six years later no electricity in Makhabeleni

Municipality says it needs another R15 million to complete project

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Brief | 29 May 2020

Covid-19: Teachers refuse to return to work after one tests positive

SADTU supports protesters at Enkululekweni Primary School in Cape Town

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Brief | 28 May 2020

SASSA applicants camped outside Mdantsane office

“I noticed that most people getting served were those who had camped here the night before, so I decided to join them”

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Brief | 27 May 2020

Strandfontein homeless site closes

City says Culemborg site will accommodate 96 of the estimated 180 homeless people now living under the overpass

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Brief | 25 May 2020

High Court gives Makana Municipality tongue-lashing over attempt to appeal landmark verdict

Judge says government “ought to be hanging their heads in shame”

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Brief | 22 May 2020

Doctors and nurses down tools at Eastern Cape hospital

“People are dealing with blood. They cannot work without gloves.”

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Brief | 22 May 2020

Electricity protests after RDP homeowners disconnect informal settlement

“Our electricity boxes trip and only start to work the following day” says RDP homeowner in Mfuleni

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Brief | 22 May 2020

“The only time they flock here is when they want our votes” says Pietermaritzburg resident

The City has promised to send a team to resolve issues of sanitation in Mkhondeni

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Brief | 22 May 2020

150 people use one woman’s toilet

“I feel for her. If it was someone else, they would never accept what we are doing.”

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Brief | 22 May 2020

Court orders City of Cape Town to leave Obs occupiers alone

Interim interdict can be challenged on 3 June

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Brief | 21 May 2020

Patients at Mfuleni Day Hospital get medication through the fence

“I thought they were joking” says patient

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Brief | 20 May 2020

Protesters bring road project to a halt in KwaNobuhle

They believe unemployed youths from their ward are being sidelined

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Brief | 20 May 2020

Water tanks run dry in Motherwell informal settlements

“Residents spend time in long queues waiting to fetch water” says community leader

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Brief | 19 May 2020

Glebelands Eight trial postponed to October

Accused to remain in prison due to lockdown restrictions

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Brief | 19 May 2020