Local government
Emalahleni is failing to provide clean drinking water to 500,000 people
People have to use their social grants to buy electricity to boil dirty water
By Steve Kretzmann and Chris Gilili
News | 22 September 2022
Residents take to the streets after Harrismith without power for two weeks
Electricity restored Sunday afternoon but municipality will need millions to fix its substation properly
News | 19 September 2022
Decades into democracy Pietermaritzburg can’t blame ageing infrastructure for water woes, says SAHRC
Hearings into the province’s water crisis concluded on Friday
By Benita Enoch
News | 22 August 2022
The President came, the President went, and nothing changed
15 months after the Harrismith N3 protests, the people of Intabazwe say they remain forgotten
News | 18 August 2022
Makhanda to provide serviced sites instead of houses
City unable to cope with rise in housing needs
Brief | 18 August 2022
Eastern Cape towns without water for two weeks
Striking workers at Amathole District Municipality say they are not to blame
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 12 August 2022
This is why Tembisa residents started deadly riots
Electricity was at the root of dissatisfaction
News | 12 August 2022
Boys play soccer in neglected Gugulethu Cemetery
Petition launched to get City of Cape Town to fix the graveyard
Brief | 1 August 2022
Tshwane invites bids for Pastor Bushiri’s former stomping ground
Dilapidated Tshwane Events Centre to be rebuilt
News | 21 July 2022