The Two Potchefstrooms: Where apartheid is in place
Thirty years after democracy, Potchefstroom remains two cities in one.
Service delivery
Staff, medicine and water shortages in Eastern Cape clinics – SAHRC demands answers
The EC Department of Health has been given until 30 March to address all outstanding complaints.
Flood-hit Vhembe villages give an ultimatum to government
The villagers have threatened to stay away from the upcoming local government elections.
Patients at Limpopo clinic told to ‘bring their own water’
A R222-million water project to bring water to Vuwani has not delivered in the 8 years since its launch.
‘A Moral and Political Failure’: Civics, parliamentarians and the Public Protector blast Enoch Mgijima Municipality
With R1.7-billion in debt, only four refuse trucks for 30,000 homes, and councillors owing R3.3-million in unpaid rates, Komani activists say their municipality is “in autopilot mode”.
Public Works presents a plan to deal with construction project delays
The plan sets out a framework for collective and individual accountability, measurable targets, real timelines, and enforceable consequences.
SA’s insecurity cluster of overburdened detectives, ineffective courts and overcrowded prisons
A big gap between arrests and convictions plagues the criminal justice system
Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners
Lack of basic services is at the centre of discontent in two East London settlements.
Cape Town’s central line reopens
R1.3 billion spent to restore rail corridor suspended in 2019 due to land occupations and vandalism.
Protest leaders arrested as tensions grow in Covid Village
Protesters allegedly burned down shacks belonging to residents not joining the protest action.
Shack dwellers from Khayelitsha protest in Cape Town
As winter creeps in, residents of informal settlements in Khayelitsha protest for basic services.
Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future
The government has again failed to reach the deadline to eradicate pit latrines at schools.
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