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Covid-19: Banned from collecting firewood, grandmother cooks over a fire of plastic bottles
“The food tastes horrible and the smoke makes us cough,” says Mona Sias of Cookhouse
News | 30 April 2020
“Coronavirus is the last thing to worry about while looking for gold deep inside a mine”
Informal miners say they are continuing operations amid lockdown
News | 30 April 2020
Covid-19: Increase in social grants not good enough, say critics
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
News | 29 April 2020
Beaches at risk: Report reveals alarming pollution along Cape Town’s coast
Popular beaches are among 31 polluted sites, long-awaited water quality report shows
News | 29 April 2020
Covid-19: Strandfontein site for homeless to be closed, says councillor
Email reveals plan to close it on Thursday
By James Stent
News | 29 April 2020
Covid-19 prolongs Makhanda water crisis
Hundreds of millions budgeted for bulk water and sanitation projects to be shifted to emergency response plan
News | 29 April 2020
Conflict in Philippi over electricity connections
Men living in Ramaphosa informal settlement accused of attacking women in Victoria Mxenge community
News | 28 April 2020
Hours after agreeing not to demolish shacks, eThekwini municipality sends in Land Invasion Unit
No demolitions, but residents of Khenana informal settlement say they were threatened and harassed
News | 28 April 2020
Covid-19: Minister puts a stop to lottery ticket sales
Unclear why National Lotteries Commission was selling a non-essential good during lockdown
News | 25 April 2020