Brief

Families vacate land at owner’s request, only to be moved off new land too

City of Cape Town demolished the shacks and confiscated the material of 13 families who had moved from private land

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Brief | 24 June 2020

Doornbach residents resist Covid-19 relocation plan

About 1,500 Dunoon families are to be moved to Winning Way

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Brief | 23 June 2020

Community healthcare workers down tools

Union wants outsourcing stopped and workers integrated with health department

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Brief | 19 June 2020

Asylum seekers may apply for Covid-19 relief grant

Pretoria High Court rules against the Minister of Social Development

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Brief | 19 June 2020

Residents thank Covid-19 pandemic for sanitation

After 23 years using a pit latrine, community gets chemical toilets

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Brief | 19 June 2020

SANCO closes Crossroads school after teacher tests positive for Covid-19

Education department says unnecessary to shut down school

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Brief | 17 June 2020

Durban fire leaves 150 people homeless and one dead

One of two serious shack fires in city in 24 hours

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Brief | 15 June 2020

Motherwell school shut down by parents worried about safety

Eastern Cape Department of Education says 94% of schools had received personal protective equipment

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Brief | 12 June 2020

Workers take PE municipality to CCMA

Union wants Nelson Mandela Bay to implement a resolution made in 2018 to employ workers permanently

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Brief | 12 June 2020

Young carpenter turns dumped wood into curios

Ulundi Mpulu, 21, founded House of Pallets, a curio shop and African kitchen

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Brief | 11 June 2020

School defies vandals and re-opens

A security fence was supposed to be installed around Joe Slovo Primary in Port Elizabeth but the lockdown delayed that plan

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Brief | 10 June 2020

Two years waiting for the lights to be switched on

Poles and cables were installed in Ngudza, Limpopo, in 2018

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Brief | 9 June 2020

Pietermaritzburg schools shut down by protesters demanding water

“They must give water to the community before the schools”

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Brief | 9 June 2020

Psychiatric hospital seeks interdict against SANCO and NEHAWU

Urgent application brought by Life Esidimeni Care Centre in Kirkwood after incident on Tuesday

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Brief | 5 June 2020

Covid-19: Mother fears for disabled daughter’s life

Woman with debilitating co-morbidities lives with five people in a shack that has no toilet

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Brief | 5 June 2020

Covid-19: Workers at Kromberg & Schubert down tools

Employees demand factory cleaned and colleagues tested after worker tests positive for Covid-19

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Brief | 4 June 2020