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Community leader shot in escalating electricity battle
Attempts by SAPS and municipality to intervene have not yet reduced tension
News | 20 July 2020
Clinic without proper electricity and running water for ten months
Staff say they make daily trips to collect water from the nearest facility about 10km away
News | 17 July 2020
RDP homeowners and shack dwellers clash over electricity
Nkandla residents tried to remove connections from Endlovini informal settlement in Port Elizabeth
News | 17 July 2020
KZN hospital shut down, patients evacuated
“Thanks for the opportunity but we will not be commenting” says provincial health department
News | 17 July 2020
Johannesburg suburb donates “trikes” and uniforms to reclaimers
City says residents and organisations must work together to formalise reclaimers
By Zoë Postman
News | 17 July 2020
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