Covid-19: Durban customers fed-up with bad hair days
Hairstylists find ways to work while salons are closed
News | 15 June 2020
Shack dwellers’ vegetable co-operative funds new toilets, masks and sanitisers
Vegetable gardens have changed life in Durban informal settlement
News | 4 June 2020
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
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
News | 20 May 2020
Pressing need for food parcels in Durban
Hunger grows in Blackburn Village informal settlement’s 2,000 households
News | 11 May 2020
Long wait for title deeds in Durban
Residents of Mount Moriah have been waiting more than ten years
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
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
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
Interview | 24 April 2020