Brief

Community installs its own toilets after crowdfunded campaign

Construction of flushing toilets has begun, but the unresponsive Ekurhuleni municipality may spoil the project

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Brief | 17 July 2018

Walmer residents want satellite police station reopened

Police say they have increased patrols in the area

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Brief | 17 July 2018

KZN nurses call for health MEC to step down

“We are short staffed and overworked. This is the third march this year.”

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Brief | 17 July 2018

Social grant beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues

We feel their pain. Some of the issues raised will help them, says striker

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Brief | 13 July 2018

Unions claim victory in Port Elizabeth municipal back pay agreement

Trollip says coalition council has resolved decades of impasse with workers

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Brief | 13 July 2018

Playground for rats at Redhill informal settlement

Municipality dispatches rodent control team

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Brief | 13 July 2018

The worst toilets in Khayelitsha?

Residents in K2 say toilets haven’t been cleaned this year

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Brief | 13 July 2018

Protesters close municipal offices in Gugulethu

Protest was unrelated to the torching of the Gugulethu fire station and municipal building on Thursday morning

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Brief | 12 July 2018

East London taxi commuters left wet and unhappy

Municipality says it will start construction of a shelter this financial year

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Brief | 12 July 2018

300 toilets without houses after five years

Uitenhage housing beneficiaries were moved to the toilets a year ago

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Brief | 12 July 2018

Cars but no roads in Eastern Cape village

Municipality promises to fix the situation by the end of the month

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Brief | 12 July 2018

Housing protest in Pietermaritzburg leaves residents in the dark

Protesters burn electricity transformers and block roads in Copesville

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Brief | 11 July 2018

Rusape residents refuse to pay rates until they get services

Councillor blames Zimbabwe’s struggling economy for lack of funds

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Brief | 11 July 2018

Mobile clinic stays away in bad weather, say residents

Eastern Cape government says no new clinics will be built in 2018

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Brief | 11 July 2018

“We need electricity, legal or not” says shack dweller

eThekwini Municipality is planning to roll out 18,000 new electricity connections across the city

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Brief | 10 July 2018

Municipality fails to fix burst pipe for two years, says resident

Uitenhage resident says area around his house remains waterlogged despite reporting the problem to the City several times

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Brief | 9 July 2018