Poop keeps Khayelitsha pre-schoolers out of school
A sewage spill has turned a preschool into a health hazard.
A sewage spill has turned a preschool into a health hazard.
Prasa promises trains to be running on Cape Town’s busiest line by the end of the year but has yet to relocate hundreds of families who built homes along the railway during the Covid lockdown.
The workers have resorted to strike action to get the cleaning company and the City of Cape Town to pay what is due to them.
Social grant recipients in Khayelitsha would much prefer having Sassa in its old premises with the Department of Social Development as it is closer to public transport and much safer, the protesters argued.
Activists used the opportunity to comment on the Draft White Paper on Human Settlements to call for policy changes.
The 66 LEAP officers were hired after brief training but dismissed by the City of Cape Town for failing driving and firearm competency tests.
The residents of an informal settlement near Khayelitsha Mall say they won’t move to make way for a private hospital but demand basic services instead.
The protestors demand the building of a district hospital in Gugulethu as the day hospital is not adequately equipped.
The protesters called for increased funding of public services, education and social grants from the finance minister before he delivered his medium-term budget policy statement.
To mark Human Rights Day and to stand in solidarity with the global climate movement, the marchers called for system change.