Government

City of Cape Town refuses to say how many shacks were demolished at the weekend

Zweledinga informal settlement in Khayelitsha destroyed

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News | 21 January 2020

Families queue to get electricity reconnected

Relatives of deceased account holders must re-apply for benefits, says Nelson Mandela Bay municipality

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News | 16 January 2020

Parents of child who died on Makana playground want compensation from municipality

“We have been complaining for years about the dangers of that playground”

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News | 16 January 2020

Reprieve for farm families facing second eviction

But municipalities wash their hands of responsibility for providing alternative accommodation

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News | 12 December 2019

Government must do more than talk about the water crisis

The solution for the Sekhukhune District Municipality’s waterless villages is obvious

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Opinion | 5 December 2019

Pietermaritzburg families burying their loved ones at home as cemeteries fill up

Municipality now using pathways in cemetery for graves

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News | 5 December 2019

Osizweni residents cry foul on road construction jobs

Their names were drawn, but they never got the promised work

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News | 4 December 2019

R2.3 million taxi rank unused for five years

No explanation from Newcastle municipality

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Brief | 28 November 2019

Vandalised anti-apartheid museum in PE may soon be open again

Residents closed down Red Location Museum in 2013

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News | 27 November 2019

Nelson Mandela Bay is drowning in rubbish

Garbage piling up in spite of clean-up programme

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News | 22 November 2019

RDP housing is at a snail’s pace in Eastern Cape

Construction companies blame government budget constraints

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News | 21 November 2019

Makana residents blame municipality for filthy dump site

Children play in the rubbish, say residents

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Brief | 21 November 2019

Western Cape government confronts City of Cape Town over “appalling unhygienic” conditions in Dunoon

City says it has “a service delivery obligation but is not itself the cause of the pollution”

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News | 14 November 2019

Open manhole is an accident waiting to happen

A drain in Uitenhage has stood uncovered for two months, say residents

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Brief | 13 November 2019

Marikana protesters bring grievances to Western Cape Premier’s front gate

Informal settlement residents want better security

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News | 31 October 2019

Limpopo Premier wages “war on potholes” – but only on Facebook

Hours after the photoshoot, the trucks had left

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Brief | 31 October 2019