Brief

Family wants answers after relative murdered in hospital

Tapiwa Chipika, a Zimbabwean, is believed to have been strangled in a ward

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Brief | 29 March 2018

Train strike looms

Union says it has reached deadlock with Prasa

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Brief | 28 March 2018

Fire “Minister of Broken Promises” says Equal Education

Call for Motshekga to be fired after second school latrine death

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Brief | 28 March 2018

Court finalises interdict against Prasa

Employees may not intimidate UniteBehind members

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Brief | 26 March 2018

Shack dwellers rebuild a third time after demolitions in Mfuleni

Residents are not building to cause trouble, but because they have no place to stay, says community leader

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Brief | 26 March 2018

Two die in Philippi fire

Neighbours tried but failed to put out shack fire with buckets of water

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Brief | 26 March 2018

Losing the war on waste in filthy Port Elizabeth suburb

Councillor says awareness campaign not happening in his ward where the place is strewn with rubbish

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Brief | 23 March 2018

Waste picker killed by trash compactor

Nswaki Mahlakwane’s body remained uncollected for more than 12 hours

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Brief | 22 March 2018

Community successfully crowd funds R70k for toilets

A miracle that happened so quickly, says resident in Mzondi informal settlement

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Brief | 21 March 2018

Metrorail’s Fish Hoek to Simon’s Town bus service not running

Spokesperson would not comment on why the substitute service stopped

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Brief | 21 March 2018

Sixty-one-year-old man shot dead in protest

Eastern Cape residents want proper roads to their villages

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Brief | 20 March 2018

Mfuleni’s evicted land occupiers squat in makeshift communal shacks

“The shack becomes jam-packed in the evening”

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Brief | 19 March 2018

Informal gold miners raise money to bury their friend

More Ngondi was killed by mine security

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Brief | 15 March 2018

Scores left homeless after demolitions in Makhaza

Spate of land occupations in Cape Town continues

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Brief | 14 March 2018

Residents want sewerage system because pit toilets are full

Ward councillor says there will be sewers by 2019 latest

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Brief | 14 March 2018

New land occupation in Kraaifontein

93 families say they wish to establish a crime free informal settlement for themselves

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Brief | 13 March 2018