R92 million and six years later no electricity in Makhabeleni

Municipality says it needs another R15 million to complete project

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Brief | 29 May 2020

Women dig up old spring to solve village’s water problem

“God gave us natural water and it is time we use it”, say Elandskop women

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News | 28 May 2020

Low-income families are spending more on food since March, says report

“We have to accept that we now face a massive hunger crisis”

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News | 26 May 2020

“The only time they flock here is when they want our votes” says Pietermaritzburg resident

The City has promised to send a team to resolve issues of sanitation in Mkhondeni

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Brief | 22 May 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

Glebelands Eight trial postponed to October

Accused to remain in prison due to lockdown restrictions

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Brief | 19 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

SASSA pensioners sleep outside post office

Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay

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News | 5 May 2020

“System glitch” sends scores of SASSA beneficiaries home empty handed

SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday

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Brief | 4 May 2020

Covid-19: Clinic staff in two-week quarantine after nurse tests positive

Oqaqeni Clinic in Maphumulo, northern KwaZulu-Natal remains closed

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Brief | 4 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

Covid-19: Residents protest as patients with coronavirus transferred to rural hospital

MEC calls for eradication of stigma against Covid-19 patients

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News | 23 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