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Pensioners have to pay people to fetch drinking water from streams
Taps in this municipality have been dry for years
News | 11 September 2024
City of Cape Town pushes for plan from PRASA to manage commuter rail
Legal correspondence over finalisation of rail agreement exchanged
News | 10 September 2024
Health department misses another deadline to provide nurses with uniforms
The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November
News | 10 September 2024
Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project
Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project
News | 9 September 2024
At least 116 children died from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in one year
Conference on hunger hears there’s more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger.
By Mike Loewe
News | 9 September 2024
Premier Group goes to court to end Mister Sweet strike
Strike at Germiston factory enters fourth week
News | 9 September 2024
Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed
Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago
News | 9 September 2024
Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments
Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January
By Matthew Hirsch and GroundUp Staff
News | 7 September 2024
Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body
A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father
News | 6 September 2024