Activists impatient with long wait for promised social housing
City of Cape Town says national government slow to release “well-located” land for affordable housing
News | 12 August 2021
Eastern Cape village without water since 2019
A pensioner says she has to use the little money she has to pay youths to collect water from a neighbouring community
Brief | 12 August 2021
Small businesses in Gauteng may never open again after July riots
Shopkeepers say they are unlikely to be able to access relief funds
News | 12 August 2021
Mother without ID struggles for years to enrol children at school
The departments of Home Affairs and Social Development are currently helping the Kuilsriver family
News | 12 August 2021
State refused to help immigrant fire victims, so this organisation stepped up
Immigrants who lost their shacks in a fire in Briardene last month were refused building materials by the state
Brief | 12 August 2021
Deaths from Covid-19 are more than double the official count
Researchers have suggested how government can help fix the numbers
By Michael Cherry and Nathan Geffen
Science | 12 August 2021
Some people haven’t received their disability grants since the start of the year
Frustrated temporary disability grant beneficiaries say SASSA offices are not coping
By Liezl Human
News | 11 August 2021
Family waits 11 hours at roadside with body of child killed in a hit-and-run
Three-year-old Mtshidzi Ngwenya was killed at a pedestrian crossing on the N1 in Limpopo at 1pm. Pathologists only came after midnight
Brief | 11 August 2021
Draft Cape Town by-law could see land occupiers fined or imprisoned for up to two years, fear housing activists
Treating occupiers as criminals fails to recognise that the vast majority of people are forced to take land, says Ndifuna Ukwazi
News | 11 August 2021