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Eskom users, fined for bridging electricity, beg to be reconnected
In Orange Farm many residents have been disconnected for two years because they can’t pay the R6k remedial fee
News | 16 July 2020
“We want evictees back” says Mfuleni community leader
City says it will continue preventing the illegal occupation of its temporary houses
By Vincent Lali
News | 16 July 2020
Covid-19: Children eat wild plants to survive as hunger explodes
New survey shows hunger doubled since lockdown
By Justin Brown
News | 16 July 2020
Parliament to order National Lotteries Commission to hand over details of all its grants
Refusal to do so would not “withstand constitutional scrutiny”, says parliamentary legal adviser
News | 15 July 2020
Motshekga snubs teachers’ unions
Minister says she’s consulting, but unions say it’s not with them
News | 15 July 2020
Groote Schuur doctor describes her day in a Covid-19 ward
“The reality is the beds are full and people are dying”
By Elna Schütz
News | 15 July 2020
Why is Durban splurging R50 million on a sea pier extension?
City’s sand-pumping scheme had become dysfunctional due to neglect
By Tony Carnie
News | 15 July 2020
Massive new land occupation on Cape Nature land in Mfuleni
Some families say they were displaced by flooding
By Vincent Lali
News | 14 July 2020
Two years later: still no new toilets at Cofimvaba school
508 schools still without any sanitation in the Eastern Cape, says Equal Education
News | 14 July 2020