Brief

Makhaza might wait another four years for promised police station

Bheki Cele’s 2018 promise will not be kept until 2025-6

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Brief | 18 May 2022

Activists call for a task team to find ways to boost Covid grant

Social protection provides a lifeline but it’s not enough, say researchers

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Brief | 17 May 2022

“I stood there watching the blaze kill my family”

Relative describes her helplessness as five people die in Khayelitsha fire

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Brief | 16 May 2022

Minister promises land to people living on railway track

Fikile Mbalula tells community leaders he’ll be back in two weeks to show them the land

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Brief | 14 May 2022

Early childhood development: hundreds of centres are still waiting for their Covid money

More than 1,700 have not yet been paid out in the Western Cape alone

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Brief | 11 May 2022

The Prosperous Platinum City’s ruined taxi rank

More than 200 taxis use this Madibeng rank daily, but it has only one toilet

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Brief | 11 May 2022

Court summons Education MEC over special needs school

MEC failed to comply with previous court ruling, says Judge

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Brief | 10 May 2022

“We are overwhelmed,” says nurse at Steve Biko Academic Hospital

Nurses march to demand better working conditions and more staff

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Brief | 4 May 2022

No budget to fix main road littered with potholes

The road between Ga-Rankuwa and Kgabalatsane is eroded and potholed

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Brief | 4 May 2022

Bridge swept away in heavy rains restored for Eastern Cape villagers

Company rebuilt the bridge at no extra charge, says transport department

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Brief | 3 May 2022

Eastern Cape farm workers vow to continue strike

Farmers’ organisation says many farms will struggle to survive this season

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Brief | 29 April 2022

Seven million people have applied for the R350 grant since Saturday

Social Development says its budget can only cater for 10.5-million

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Brief | 29 April 2022

Soweto residents block roads in electricity protest

Protesters demand that City Power restore the power supply, after a 13 day outage

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Brief | 26 April 2022

Labour department rules that classrooms at Limpopo school are too dangerous to use

Department closes down part of the school after the Department of Education failed to fix it

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Brief | 26 April 2022

Parents block N2 to demand scholar transport

They say learners have not been able to attend school since January

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Brief | 26 April 2022

Fifty families share two toilets in Taiwan, Khayelitsha

Toilets have not been cleaned for five weeks

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Brief | 26 April 2022