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Things just get worse and worse at the labour department in Bellville
“This is my fifth time coming here,” says UIF claimant
News | 21 September 2023
Families have been waiting six years to be moved from Durban transit camp
eThekwini municipality has no explanation for delay and no timeline to offer
News | 21 September 2023
The Education Minister promised all schools would have a library by 29 November - but there’s no chance that deadline will be met
Three quarters of public schools still don’t have libraries, in spite of a 2013 promise
By Sonia A. Rao
News | 21 September 2023
Protest at Parliament goes ahead after last-minute deal with City of Cape Town
Activist organisation #UniteBehind wants MPs to fire former PRASA chair Sfiso Buthelezi
By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ella Morrison
News | 20 September 2023
NSFAS and Blade Nzimande snub Parliament hearing on student funding failures
The portfolio committee will issue a summons if NSFAS and the minister fail to attend the next meeting
News | 20 September 2023
Swellendam community centre burnt down in electricity protest
Police and protesters exchange rubber bullets and stones
News | 20 September 2023
Family demands answers after teen’s body disappears from state morgue
Department and police fail to answer questions because they are still investigating three years later
News | 20 September 2023
Mining department refuses West Coast prospecting bid
Government turned down Limpopo-based Nekwana Trading Enterprise’s application because of shortcomings in basic impact assessment
By John Yeld
News | 19 September 2023
Call for Johannesburg to turn “dark buildings” into decent housing for poor people
Housing collective plans march in city next month to demand housing for the poor
News | 18 September 2023