Blowey residents spend child grants on paraffin
Blowey residents have been without electricity since the October fires that destroyed 150 shacks.
Blowey residents have been without electricity since the October fires that destroyed 150 shacks.
Workers providing cleaning services to the City of Cape Town through an outsourced company have not been paid their February and March salaries.
The parents at the Cape Town primary school allege that the principal is corrupt and runs the school like an extortion racket.
As residents mop up the storm damage, they decried their living conditions that remain unchanged as promises made by government after previous destruction proved empty.
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.