Brief

Victims of 2022 KwaZulu-Natal floods march to demand housing

Hundreds come to central Durban to hand over memo to Premier’s office

Unpaid contractors block central Gqeberha with garbage trucks and water tankers

The municipality agreed to pay service providers by next week

Wits students set up Palestinian solidarity encampment

University senate expected to meet this week

Soup kitchen serves Eastern Cape children the only meal they’ll eat that day

The Human Rights Commission has recommended that child malnutrition in the province be declared a disaster

Durban households still without water as reservoir levels remain critically low

Residents of Ntuzuma welcomed the arrival of a municipal water truck on Sunday after more than a week without water

Huge march to Parliament for better schools

Presidency and Department of Basic Education commit to respond to demands by Equal Education

“Dismay” at Stellenbosch senate’s rejection of call for Gaza ceasefire

Meanwhile Nelson Mandela University senate supported a call for a ceasefire in Gaza earlier this week, and effectively an academic boycott of Israel

Court interdicts protesting college students

Some Port Elizabeth TVET College student leaders claim they are being denied access to the college unfairly

Protesters demand Wits take public stand on Gaza

Calls for “academic boycott of apartheid Israel”

Hundreds left outside in the cold and wet after Dunoon shack fire

On Tuesday afternoon, community leaders were still coordinating relief efforts for fire victims at Doornbach informal settlement in Cape Town

Race to find 48 trapped construction workers

21 people have been rescued from the site of the collapsed building in George

Building collapses in George - 3 dead and 51 missing

The long battle of 300 families for toilets and taps

The land they live on in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, has been earmarked for a hospital

Marchers say Yes! and No! to new cannabis law

The Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill is awaiting the President’s signature to become law

President tells ministers to set up task team on use of public land for housing

The State Land Disposal Act allows the President to fast track the use of public land

“No electricity, no vote”, shout angry Limpopo villagers

Xinkuwani village has never had electricity