News
After years of missing deadlines government wants 18 more months to solve foster grant crisis
Tens of thousands of children yet again at risk of losing their grants
By James Stent
News | 22 October 2020
Snaking queue for Covid grants in Soweto
“I heard the government extended the grant for three months, but I am still waiting for my first payment to be approved”
By Mosa Damane
News | 22 October 2020
Housing protest after Gauteng “delivers nothing” on 2018 promise
Protesters want to know what happened to the Rapid Land Release Program
By Zoë Postman
News | 22 October 2020
92 cases struck from court roll in three months due to police inefficiency
“Dockets are disappearing in different police stations. Cases are just disappearing off the roll”
News | 22 October 2020
MPs give Home Affairs and City a tongue lashing over refugee camps
Parliament’s portfolio committee on Home Affairs to conduct oversight visit
News | 21 October 2020
Port Elizabeth family lose “breadwinner” in taxi shooting
The incident sparked violence in the communities of Booysens Park and Marikana
News | 21 October 2020
“Massive” oil spill in Umbilo River
Environmental group says pipeline was meant to have been shut down in 2008
News | 21 October 2020
SASSA determined to get back “every cent” owed by Cash Paymaster Services
CPS owes SASSA R1.5 billion, says spokesperson
By Zoë Postman
News | 20 October 2020
Shack dwellers want a share of toilet building tender
“Nothing about shack dwellers without involving shack dwellers” says member of new business forum
News | 20 October 2020