Residents of TR section say they have to deal with maggots and faeces smell everywhere ever since the cleaning and collecting of buckets was suspended in October due to extortion gangs.
The SAHRC inquiry into child health in the Eastern Cape found that between April 2021 and March 2022, 116 children died of severe acute malnutrition.
An uproar by opposition parties and activists on the appointment of corruption-accused Zondani by the Amathole District Municipality has fallen on deaf ears.
Goedverwatch community tell of bad service delivery from the Moravian Church of South Africa.
Extortion is a trending crime that has impacted construction projects nationally. Cape Town is beefing up security and offering rewards for tip-offs.
Poor attendance on the first day of school was caused by a water outage in Khayelitsha.
The recent floods in Cape Town devastated informal settlements, particularly in low lying areas that ironically offers them security from forced removal since the land is not deemed habitable.
The police are on a recruitment drive to boost the number of detectives in the service. CPF leaders say that unless the forensics capacity of the police is also improved, detective services will remain overwhelmed and disabled.
Communities along Cape Town’s central line complain of inadequate sanitation and access to water as the plan to relocate them stalls.
The Jagersfontein community say that they are worried about the snail pace to implement the recommendations of the report following the 2021 mine tailings dam collapse.
Zondani’s lawyer is optimistic that they will win the case while activists doubt that anything less than its dissolution will bring change to the municipality.
Civic organisations and political parties marched against the electricity tariffs on Saturday.
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