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”
By Vincent Lali
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”
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
By Vincent Lali
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”
News | 23 March 2020
Christiaan Barnard Memorial wasn’t ready to accept Covid-19 patient
Woman is now being treated in Groote Schuur
By James Stent
News | 20 March 2020
Covid-19: Here’s what occupations in Cape Town are doing in response to the pandemic
Woodstock Hospital is well prepared, but occupiers at Central Methodist Church and Helen Bowden Nurses Home are at great risk
By James Stent
News | 19 March 2020
Covid-19: Taxi commuters anxious about pandemic
City of Cape Town says it will implement a number of precautionary measures at public transport interchanges in the coming days
News | 18 March 2020
“I don’t know where I will sleep or get money to buy materials to rebuild my shack”
The City of Cape Town acted on a court order at the weekend demolishing dozens of shacks
By Vincent Lali
News | 17 March 2020
Central Methodist Church seeks advice over removal of refugees
“The refugee leadership gave me the assurance that they will vacate the church. They did not honour these commitments”
Brief | 13 March 2020