Covid-19: A busker without an audience

Lockdown has hit informal sector workers hard

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Video | 1 April 2020

Covid-19: “We can’t stay inside when we have no toilets”

Lockdown meaningless in Dunoon informal settlements

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News | 31 March 2020

Covid-19: Police arrest shopkeeper for trading without a permit

Shop was selling food and is exempt under disaster regulations

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Brief | 31 March 2020

Covid-19: Homeless people in Muizenberg are afraid and anxious

“No one has talked to us about the virus. We don’t know what it can do to us. All we know is that you must wash your hands.”

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Brief | 27 March 2020

In photos: Day one of lockdown

Soldiers and police patrol streets asking residents to stay at home

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Photo Essay | 27 March 2020

Covid-19: Some sex workers move online as SA heads into lockdown

SWEAT and Sonke call for fast-tracking of law reform and decriminalisation of sex work

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Brief | 27 March 2020

Illegal dumping site stinks in Mfuleni

Residents want wheelie bins, bin bags and regular garbage collection

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Brief | 27 March 2020

Academics raise alarm over by-law restricting water testing

The City says research in its nature reserves is allowed but only with permission

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News | 26 March 2020

Informal settlement residents demand water ahead of lockdown

“Everybody says that the most vulnerable will be protected but what has the government done to make sure the most vulnerable have access to water?”

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News | 26 March 2020

Housing backlog exceeds half a million in Western Cape

City and Province’s housing demand drive adds 10,000 more to the database

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Feature | 26 March 2020

Covid-19: Lockdown hits informal traders

Many traders have no savings and without any income they don’t know how they will make it through the next 21 days

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News | 26 March 2020

Huge church accused of scamming members

Former members of Prophetic, Healing and Deliverance Ministries say the money they invested has disappeared

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Feature | 25 March 2020

Covid-19: It’s hard to wash your hands when 380 families share three taps

“If I use the one bucket of water to do laundry then I remain without water to cook and wash hands”

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News | 25 March 2020

Covid-19: New UIF provisions may help workers

But labour lawyer has his doubts and the Fund is “inundated with enquiries from businesses”

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News | 23 March 2020

Dozens of families spend night outside amid ongoing evictions

“They left us with nothing. I don’t know where I will go now” says Khayelitsha occupier

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News | 23 March 2020

Human Rights Commission asked to look at farm job losses and evictions

Seasonal farm worker says she was dismissed without full pay and told: “It’s because of the virus”

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News | 23 March 2020