KwaMashu paramedics refuse to work until they’re tested for Covid-19

They have been told only symptomatic people would be tested, despite asymptomatic colleague testing positive

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Brief | 3 June 2020

Covid-19: Durban workers without pay as company fails to declare them with UIF

Over R14 billion paid to about 2.5 million workers during lockdown, says labour department

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News | 20 May 2020

Pressing need for food parcels in Durban

Hunger grows in Blackburn Village informal settlement’s 2,000 households

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News | 11 May 2020

Long wait for title deeds in Durban

Residents of Mount Moriah have been waiting more than ten years

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News | 7 May 2020

Covid-19: “At least something good came out of this lockdown” says settlement resident

Mandeni informal settlement got six toilets and running water after 10 years of waiting

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Brief | 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

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News | 28 April 2020

Covid-19 lockdown bridges social divide for Durban’s homeless

Raymond Perrier of the Denis Hurley Centre says it took three days to achieve what NGOs had been trying to do for three years

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Interview | 24 April 2020

Shacks demolished in Cato Manor

“We have every right to the land and even have a court interdict protecting us from demolitions” says resident

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News | 23 April 2020

Covid-19: Informal settlement without water despite Durban mayor’s promise

In January the City demolished the only toilet in Mandeni

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Brief | 16 April 2020