Brief

Dunoon’s potholed sewage-filled roads

City says it cannot maintain the streets due to continued unrest and threats to contractors

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Brief | 9 July 2020

Community health care workers protest in Khayelitsha

They are demanding to be integrated into the health department

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Brief | 8 July 2020

Old age home staff protest after patient deaths

Staff refused to work after 11 of them tested positive for Covid-19 at a home in Uitenhage

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Brief | 7 July 2020

Unions accuse government of breaking promise to increases workers’ salaries

“Workers on duty during lockdown must be paid for risk or danger allowance,” says COSATU leader

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Brief | 6 July 2020

104-year-old woman now has a choice of toilets

Following our report, Elisa Khumalo now has two toilets: one from government, one donated by a private company

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Brief | 6 July 2020

New Era dismisses six workers in Germiston

One worker was dismissed for sharing a press statement that “dragged the company’s name through the mud”

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Brief | 2 July 2020

Covid-19: SADTU members quit schools to mourn dead colleagues

Union calls for Eastern Cape schools to be closed

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Brief | 2 July 2020

Khayelitsha SASSA office to re-open Thursday

Frustrated grant beneficiaries had to travel to other offices

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Brief | 1 July 2020

Limited Metrorail service is better than none

As services slowly resumed, Cape Town commuters generally obeyed the measures put in place to curb the spread of Covid-19

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Brief | 1 July 2020

Sophiatown bursts into protests

20-year-old Cape Town informal settlement has floods but no water

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Brief | 29 June 2020

Vandalism during lockdown drains Motherwell school’s budget

Parents have started patrolling the grounds to scare off vandals

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Brief | 29 June 2020

Taxis in KZN to defy lockdown regulations

Taxis plan to operate at full capacity from Monday

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Brief | 26 June 2020

Family wants answers after death in police custody

Sakhiwo Mbonyongwana died in a Khayelitsha police station cell on Tuesday

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Brief | 26 June 2020

Stun grenades thrown at Parliament protesters

March against gender-based violence marred by group of drunk men

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Brief | 24 June 2020

104-year-old woman has to go to the toilet in the open

Elisa Khumalo has watched as other people in the area get new toilets but not her

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Brief | 24 June 2020

“Commuters have to urinate in the open,” says PE taxi driver

Taxi rank public toilets badly vandalised last year have remained closed

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Brief | 24 June 2020