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No water means no service: Hundreds turned away at Gqeberha labour office

The department advised people to visit the Kariega branch or use their online services

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News | 6 August 2021

Rural families battle to get water although they live near a dam

“How unfair is that? It’s a joke,” says resident

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News | 6 August 2021

Immigrant fire victims denied building materials and land in Durban

While South African families in Briardene pick up their lives, immigrants have been excluded from rebuilding efforts

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News | 5 August 2021

Community torch municipal office after shacks demolished

“I was relaxing on my couch when they arrived with their crowbars. They just tore apart my shack” says Gqeberha mother of four

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News | 5 August 2021

Families living in filth in abandoned building

Gugulethu ward councillor acknowledges building is falling apart but can’t help occupants because it’s privately owned

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News | 5 August 2021

Volunteers are fixing looted Soweto markets

“It was scary to see this area go from busy to what felt like a ghost town overnight”

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News | 5 August 2021

July riots caused more than R100 million in damage to schools in KZN and Gauteng

Education department says this worsened its backlog on repairing over a thousand schools vandalised during lockdown

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News | 4 August 2021

KZN family says police assaulted them and took goods that were not looted

Two family members and the pet dog shot with rubber bullets

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News | 4 August 2021

Taxis return to “normal” on Cape Town roads

Except on the contested route where negotiations between CATA and CODETA are still underway

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News | 3 August 2021