Covid-19
Parents demand more classrooms so learners can return to school full time
The rural school in Limpopo only has two brick classrooms, five mobile classrooms and a zinc sheet classroom for 353 learners
Brief | 27 August 2021
People without identity documents could be vaccinated from October - health department
Motorcade promotes Covid vaccination in Nelson Mandela Bay
By Thamsanqa Mbovane and Mkhuseli Sizani
News | 26 August 2021
Durban rolls out Covid vaccines for homeless people
But ID required, leaving hundreds of people excluded
News | 26 August 2021
Taxi drivers block N2 at Plettenberg Bay over Covid-19 relief funds
A meeting between taxi drivers, associations, the municipality and provincial departments of transport and health expected on Friday
Brief | 25 August 2021
Developers try to overturn sale of land for Cape Town housing development
Covid-19 triggered a plan to move families from overcrowded Dunoon informal settlements, but more than a year later, they’re still there
News | 25 August 2021
How Walter the storyteller escaped homelessness
Like many others he lost his home during lockdown and lived rough
By James Stent
Feature | 24 August 2021
Many sex workers are battling to get vaccinated
Those who do not have identity documents cannot be registered on the government’s computer system
By Liezl Human
Brief | 24 August 2021
People flock to Nelson Mandela Bay’s pop-up vaccine sites
“I can proudly say that all of us in the family of four have taken the vaccine,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 23 August 2021
Health department takes vaccination drive to taxi rank
To boost its vaccination numbers KZN is trying various initiatives including drive-through vaccine sites
News | 23 August 2021