Government

Community leaders warn of violence and conflict over land in Port Elizabeth

Residents of two informal settlements and a backyarder group are at each other’s throats over allocation of serviced sites

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News | 4 March 2020

PRASA fails to implement security plan as court ordered

#UniteBehind now wants Minister of Transport to intervene

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Brief | 4 March 2020

No end to water rationing in Makhanda

Water crisis could have been avoided, says residents’ association

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News | 2 March 2020

Families demand speed bumps after car crashes into house

Pietermaritzburg road has been the scene of many accidents

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Brief | 28 February 2020

“Sisi, what’s the use of voting?” asks Pietermaritzburg resident

Impassable roads, no tap water, no clinic, no community hall and their municipality placed under administration for irregular expenditure

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News | 27 February 2020

Armed men assault clinic workers

Pietermaritzburg clinic closed after attack; patients turned away

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Brief | 25 February 2020

After being excluded for two years, Wandile, 8, starts school

KZN child was denied education because he has no birth certificate

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Eastern Cape villagers promised water in 1998, still waiting

Over R23 million spent and the bills keep mounting, but the taps stay dry in Flagstaff villages

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News | 25 February 2020

Failing pump floods Addo street with sewage

“Our municipality does not care about its residents”

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Brief | 20 February 2020

Cofimvaba protesters tell their mayor to start working

“Once they climb the ladder, they forget about us”

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Brief | 19 February 2020

Court blocks development on Cape Flats Aquifer

City of Cape Town and provincial government told to consider new evidence

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News | 19 February 2020

Heritage Western Cape slams River Club development plan

The area along the Liesbeek is recognised as a sacred space, says HWC

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News | 19 February 2020

Residents to take municipality to court over water meters

Witzenberg municipality accused of denying indigent grants to residents who refuse to install water management devices

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News | 12 February 2020

Informal settlements can be better planned

Re-blocking by NGOs is very different from “super-blocking” by local governments, argues Professor Steven Robins

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Opinion | 12 February 2020

Peace Village residents target funeral processions to protest about road

The protest tactic has worked before in Uitenhage

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Brief | 11 February 2020