Cape Town residents protest ‘unaffordable’ electricity tariff increase
Civic organisations and political parties marched against the electricity tariffs on Saturday.
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Khayelitsha residents march to Home Affairs
Long snaking queues are the order of the day at the Khayelitsha Home Affairs office.
Cape Town’s electricity tariff hikes bite
With the cost of living at an all time high, residents of the Cape Flats say they are buckling under the pressure of new electricity tariffs. The City of Cape Town has implemented an increase that the energy regulator itself has condemned.
Taxi strike closes five hospitals
The taxi protest in the Western Cape has shuttered clinics at the same time as the number of people needing treatment for violent injury has spiked.
Cry of the Xcluded speaks out against poverty, unemployment and crime
The launch of the Cry of the Xcluded in the Western Cape saw activists from both sides of the railway line coming together to talk about issues affecting their communities.
Their 100 problems leave Langa residents unmoved by township’s centenary
As Langa celebrates 100 years of its existence, its residents are not happy with the services that they receive from the City of Cape Town.
Langa centenary nothing to celebrate for hostel residents
Hostel residents in Langa say they are tired of empty promises of houses and failure to maintain the hostels by the authorities.
“We won’t move” – Khayelitsha land occupiers defy eviction order
The residents of an informal settlement in Khayelitsha are refusing to vacate the land for the building of a private hospital.
Housing imbizo just another talkshop say residents of informal settlements
The general sense in the room was that the imbizo was little else than a talkshop and residents of informal settlement told the housing minister that they are tired of empty promises.
Ordinary working people are being priced out of Accra and pushed into inadequate housing
Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of […]
Jagersfontein seven months after mine dam collapse
Due to desperation, the Jagersfontein community is now divided with each side accusing the other of collaborating with the mine bosses and the police they accuse of being in the bosses’ pockets.
Water crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay
According to the municipality the current average level in the five dams that supply the metro is 13,27%.
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