South Africa

Loadshedding “unavoidable” after substation blows, says mayor

Power restored in Pietermaritzburg community after protesters bring area to standstill over five-day blackout

From quack claims about Covid-19 to outright forgery

NanoWorks presents fraudulent NRCS and SABS certificates

How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations

Here are seven proposals

Luyolo land claimants to wait another three years for housing project

“For years people showed us plans for housing then disappeared without anything being done. Many of us had lost hope”

Community leaders oppose Makhaza occupation

“I have been on the housing database for years, but I still have no house” says occupier

Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics

Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee

Lockdown in pictures - Day 122: Worship

SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest

Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement

Lockdown in pictures - Day 121: Eating out