Brief

The public swimming pool in this Eastern Cape town has been empty for four years

Ngcobo residents fear the pool will be vandalised and never reopen

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Brief | 3 October 2024

Germiston informal settlement neglected since dawn of democracy

“We have rats that are as big as cats here”

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Brief | 2 October 2024

More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September

Most applicants have never had a job

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Brief | 2 October 2024

Housing activists welcome City’s intention to develop Mowbray golf course

For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing

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Brief | 2 October 2024

Protesters block West Rand roads, demanding schools, clinic and a police station

Residents of Fleurhof housing development say they are being ignored

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Brief | 1 October 2024

Joburg march to raise awareness about access to free, safe abortions

Saturday was International Safe Abortions Day

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Brief | 30 September 2024

Hundreds join Cape Flats “recovery walk”

The annual event celebrating recovery from substance use started in 2015

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Brief | 30 September 2024

Cape Town attorney accused of attempted murder requests speedy trial

Magistrate reprimands Rael Kassel for interrupting court proceedings

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Brief | 27 September 2024

Protesters furious with Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality for failing to clean up after devastating storm

Over 100 march to Kariega Town Hall to raise concerns about climate change

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Brief | 27 September 2024

Graduates march to demand police work

They say they have the qualifications and there are staff shortages in the police department but they remain unemployed

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Brief | 26 September 2024

Trash dumped at councillor’s office in electricity protest

Power has not been restored for a year to Dunoon fire victims

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Brief | 26 September 2024

Villagers have had no tap water for 15 years, but they live 3km from a dam

The Maluti-a-Phofung municipality is intermittently supplying Jwala-Boholo and Qoqolosing villages with water trucks

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Brief | 25 September 2024

Cape Town lawyer accused of racially motivated attack takes the stand

Gary Trappler says he’s a “nosy neighbour”, not a tyre slasher

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Brief | 20 September 2024

Grannies battle water shortage in Kariega

Toilets are dirty and washing piles up after a month without running water

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Brief | 19 September 2024

Hundreds of Limpopo villagers march to Eskom to demand an end to load reduction

They blame illegal connections for their electricity troubles and want Eskom to intervene

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Brief | 17 September 2024

eThekwini Municipality mum on investigation into company selling water illegally

Municipality pledges to buy 100 water trucks to end its need to hire them

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Brief | 17 September 2024