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Joburg’s informal traders call for police to stop confiscating their goods
Traders pay between R1,600 and R3,000 to retrieve their stock
News | 20 August 2021
R10 million in Lottery funding for a Limpopo children’s centre didn’t go to any children
No one in the area seems to know how the money for the Tshimbupfe Drop-in Centre for destitute children was used
By Anton van Zyl and Kaizer Nengovhela
News | 19 August 2021
R350-a-month Covid grant is too low, say speakers at Women on Farms meeting
“If I could, I would rather work”
By Liezl Human
News | 19 August 2021
Gqeberha shack dwellers block road, stone cars in protest over electricity and sanitation
700 households share three taps and three toilets
News | 18 August 2021
Elderly people in rural Makana struggle to get to vaccine sites
People are paying R60 for transport to Covid vaccination sites in Makhanda, and that’s just for the first jab
News | 18 August 2021
Taps keep running dry in Louis Trichardt
Residential areas and the town centre have been without reliable water for over a month
News | 18 August 2021
Gauteng government takes vaccination drive to informal settlements
And Saaberie Chishty Society helps get people vaccinated outside their homes
News | 18 August 2021
Homeless man creates unique lampshades from recycled material
Ziggy Goredema lost his job and home at the start of lockdown and began making and selling the hanging lampshades
News | 17 August 2021
Durban parents demand schools close after learner dies of Covid
Protest follows death of 12-year-old Kaitlyn Pillay. Education expert warns of “dire” cost to children of closing schools.
News | 17 August 2021