Brief
Residents help Free State municipality restore electricity
Dozens of people from affected villages helped officials for several days to erect fallen electricity pylons
By Tladi Moloi
Brief | 4 November 2024
Mamelodi residents struggle to claim UIF as labour office closed
The department says it shut the offices out of safety concerns in August after sporadic service delivery protests
Brief | 4 November 2024
Patients cross river and bush to get to nearest clinic
Eastern Cape Department of Health says there’s no budget to build a clinic for residents of Sicweza village just outside Flagstaff
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 4 November 2024
Government-funded organisations getting a rough deal, Parliament told
Women’s shelters anxious about being shut down
Brief | 31 October 2024
Cape Town City Council votes to release land for affordable housing
On Wednesday the City gave the green light for the release of land in Brackenfell, Wesfleur and Belhar
By Tori Newby
Brief | 30 October 2024
Community health workers picket outside Labour Court
NEHAWU has brought a case to compel the health department to give the workers permanent jobs
Brief | 30 October 2024
Teacher posts: Western Cape education department quizzed in Parliament
“We’re not retrenching teachers. We’re reducing posts,” says WCED head
By Tori Newby
Brief | 29 October 2024
Shacks and schools ruined as storm ravages Musina
A shack was blown several metres
Brief | 29 October 2024
Four dead in Cape Town shack fires
We are happy to have survived, says Khayelitsha shop owner
Brief | 28 October 2024