Mamelodi residents left to the mercy of flood waters
City of Tshwane insists plans are underway to relocate the families
News | 2 December 2022
25,000 people live in Tshwane’s squalid apartheid hostels
Broken windows, filthy and broken toilets, terrible stink: the hostels are crumbling and there’s no money to fix them
By Chris Gilili
News | 16 November 2022
Man spent two years in prison before charges were dropped
He contracted HIV and was forcibly tattooed while in jail. Now he has been awarded R2-million in damages.
Law | 10 November 2022
Gauteng government backtracks on housing promises
From a “mega project” to an “upgrade”: Marikana Soutpan families are still waiting
News | 2 November 2022
The Mamelodi hostel where “Emzini Wezinsizwa” was filmed is a mess
Site of hit 1990s SABC comedy series has no electricity
News | 25 October 2022
Homeless: Hundreds volunteer to count people living on the streets of Tshwane
This will help give more accurate data and steps needed to assist homeless people in the metro
By Chris Gilili and Warren Mabona
News | 21 October 2022
Call for Treasury to tax the rich to pay for a Basic Income Grant
“Government has ignored poor and marginalised people for too long”
By Chris Gilili
News | 18 October 2022
Meet Eric Poku, the “Shoe Doctor” of central Pretoria
Cobbler has been stitching the inner city’s shoes for twenty years
News | 12 October 2022
EFF branch chair encourages land occupation in Tshwane
The party has “allocated” 439 plots on municipal land in Ga-Rankuwa Industrial area to people
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 30 September 2022