Brief

Northern Cape learners can’t go to class because schools have no money

Lack of funding for food and electricity has forced at least one hostel to close

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Brief | 11 February 2025

18 vehicles burnt in Nyanga

This comes nearly a month after a deadly shooting at the township’s taxi rank.

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Brief | 10 February 2025

Patients have to get water brought to them at this Durban hospital

Municipality is rationing water to large parts of the city

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Brief | 10 February 2025

Go-slow at hospital after CEO was suspended

Brief suspension came after a letter in the name of CEO Mziyanda Tshaka circulated about an acute shortage of doctors at Tambo Regional Hospital

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Brief | 6 February 2025

Stilfontein protesters demand commission of inquiry into police conduct

They also demanded that mining minister Gwede Mantashe resign

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Brief | 6 February 2025

No plan yet for Cape Town families facing eviction

Bromwell residents still do not know where or when they will be relocated

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Brief | 6 February 2025

Goma Call For Peace campaign launched at St George’s Cathedral

Religious leaders and civil society groups call for end to the war

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Brief | 6 February 2025

Picket at Mining Indaba demands justice for Stilfontein miners

Activists called for reparations to be paid to the families of the miners who died

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Brief | 5 February 2025

Storms damage hundreds of homes and schools in northern KZN

Homes damaged across Msinga and Abaqulusi municipalities

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Brief | 5 February 2025

No end to long queues at SASSA Khayelitsha

Grant recipients and applicants must sleep over or arrive in the early hours if they hope to get served

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Brief | 5 February 2025

KZN flood victims housed in leaking building

Landlord battles with inconsistent payments from eThekwini Municipality

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Brief | 4 February 2025

Children walk over an hour and wade across a river to get to Fort Beaufort school

The bridge to Oakdene Primary washed away about 15 years ago

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Brief | 3 February 2025

Limpopo villagers protest over “one-nurse clinic”

The department has now temporarily closed Valdezia clinic

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Vhembe’s farmers suffer as roads deteriorate

Farmers say their livelihoods are threatened by poor road maintenance

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Landfill site meant to serve Mthatha villagers left to vandals

R32-million was spent and the site was supposed to give the community a considerable rental income

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Brief | 30 January 2025

Missing pumps, broken pipes: Limpopo villagers’ constant fight for water

Tshakhuma families used their own money to connect to the water supply, but it’s still not working

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Brief | 30 January 2025