Dunoon mother and six children among families left homeless after blaze
Some people started rebuilding on Tuesday after the homes of 139 people were gutted by a shack fire on Monday
Brief | 4 November 2020
Families live in shacks on a railway line after housing project abandoned
Housing project built in Pietermaritzburg without sewerage or planning
News | 4 November 2020
RDP houses built 20 years ago still have no water
Residents of Mtititi have to walk up to 2km to fetch water – and when they get there the taps may be dry
News | 4 November 2020
Municipal workers threaten to intensify protests
Expanded Public Works Programme workers want permanent jobs
News | 3 November 2020
1,000 RDP homes substandard and unfinished
R174-million Eastern Cape building fiasco
News | 3 November 2020
Hard life for Fairview’s horse grooms
They want the government to provide services to their informal settlement but it’s on private land. Nevertheless there is hope that a pending land transfer will change things
News | 3 November 2020
Is Shamila Batohi winning the battle to fix the NPA?
Results so far have been disappointing but there is hope
By Justin Brown
Analysis | 3 November 2020
Court rejects urgent bid to extend top-up grants
Millions of beneficiaries need the top-up to get by, argued Black Sash
By Zoë Postman
Law | 2 November 2020
People pay R50 bribe to post office staff to get their R350 Covid-19 grant
Women cry from hunger and sleep outside waiting to be served
News | 2 November 2020