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We had no water to put out the flames, say victims of Durban shack fire

Pregnant woman dies as 200 shacks gutted

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News | 15 July 2024

No electricity for Diepsloot welfare organisations

Eskom says broken transformer can’t be fixed again because the area is high risk

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News | 15 July 2024

The little charcoal business run by a group of young people in Matatiele

Morumotsho Charcoal has been going for eight years

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News | 15 July 2024

Shelters scramble as heavy rain continues

Besides a lack of space some shelters are also dealing with flooding

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News | 12 July 2024

Winelands families battle flooding: “For three days people have not slept”

Relentless rain hampers relief efforts

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News | 12 July 2024

Buffalo City ratepayers march to City Hall, rejecting electricity fee

A monthly maintenance network surcharge of between R376 and more than R700 came into effect on 1 July

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News | 11 July 2024

Appeal Court rules that City of Cape Town acted unlawfully

Ruling clarifies what constitutes lawful “counter-spoliation” when it comes to land occupation

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News | 11 July 2024

Census 2022 results are “incoherent and implausible”

Medical Research Council says there is an urgent need for population estimates that better describe the South African population

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News | 11 July 2024

No, we won’t move, say Butterworth shack dwellers

Residents of Sikiti informal settlement fear they’ll be forgotten if they agree to move to serviced sites nearby

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News | 11 July 2024

Red tape delays Dunoon housing project

The housing project was first announced to residents in 2018, and construction won’t be starting anytime soon

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News | 11 July 2024

Western Cape storms: “worse is still to come”

Schools to close across the province as another storm hits, with about 15,000 people already severely affected by floods and damaging winds

By Sandiso Phaliso, Vincent Lali, Marecia Damons, Ashraf Hendricks, Liezl Human and Peter Luhanga

News | 10 July 2024

Army destroys shacks in Marievale, leaving families homeless

Lawyers for Human Rights plans to go to court again

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News | 10 July 2024

Thousands of homes flooded as violent storm batters Western Cape

Roads closed, schools and clinics damaged, rivers burst their banks

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News | 9 July 2024

Kariega flood victims forced to move back to sodden land

Residents of Old Lapland informal settlement protested against returning as they fear the dam wall above them will burst

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News | 9 July 2024

Butterworth families evicted by chiefs in 2011 are still waiting for promised houses

People of Bhungeni were moved to make way for a mall which has still not been built

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News | 9 July 2024