Striking Durban food workers head to CCMA

Frimax Foods dismissed workers who downed tools earlier this month

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News | 29 June 2023

Durban community fears life in the dark without streetlights

The City has hired private security after losing millions of rand annually to cable theft and vandalism

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News | 26 June 2023

South African scientist hopes to head world’s most important climate change body

Debra Roberts is running for the position of chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Interview | 19 June 2023

R83-million and three and a half years later only one RDP house to show for it

Namibia Stop 8 Housing Project in Inanda started in 2019 and was meant to deliver hundreds of houses

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News | 14 June 2023

“Using the bucket is better than risking your life trying to go to the neighbour’s toilet” says Durban resident

The DA in KZN is writing to the Human Rights Commission about old and overflowing pit toilets in the community

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News | 19 May 2023

It will take eThekwini over 90 years to fix informal settlements, says metro

Meanwhile thousands of families in Foreman Road informal settlement live without adequate services

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News | 9 May 2023

Life at Cato Crest gets worse as ward councillor remains behind bars

Residents accuse eThekwini Municipality of ignoring their calls for help

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News | 8 May 2023

Determined Durban moms recycle cardboard

“This is a ticket to send our children to university”

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Feature | 3 May 2023

“Freedom Day is for rich people.” Shackdwellers protest in Durban

Residents of informal settlements march to city hall

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News | 26 April 2023

More than 30 families share one pit toilet at this Durban informal settlement

Residents say eThekwini Municipality has failed to fix most of the toilets in the area which are blocked and broken

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Brief | 26 April 2023

Durban flood victims accuse government of not keeping its promises

We spoke to families living in emergency accommodation near the city centre

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News | 24 April 2023

Thousands of households without running water for three weeks in eThekwini

Municipality has still not repaired damage caused by an electrical fire at the Ntuzuma Pump Station

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Brief | 19 April 2023

A year after the floods, the Gumbi family are still hoping to find the bodies of their children

“We have accepted that they are gone,” says member of Durban family

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News | 11 April 2023

Cleaners in a Durban township say they use their own money to fix broken toilets

The eThekwini Municipality says it will investigate claims that janitors don’t have materials and that most of the toilets in the settlement are broken

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Brief | 4 April 2023

Living conditions at “transit camp” in eThekwini Municipality are inhumane, say residents

Camp was intended as temporary housing but 11 years later, many families are still there

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News | 4 April 2023

Durban Centre for the Disabled to be sold

KZN Public Work says the occupants of the Enduduzweni Centre will keep their livelihoods

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News | 30 March 2023