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Popular beaches are among 31 polluted sites, long-awaited water quality report shows

Email reveals plan to close it on Thursday

Hundreds of millions budgeted for bulk water and sanitation projects to be shifted to emergency response plan

Emergency grant was paid out to hundreds of thousands within three weeks

“How can they say that he just dropped dead?” asks his stepdaughter after witnesses describe how Petrus Miggels was beaten by police

Mandeni informal settlement got six toilets and running water after 10 years of waiting

No demolitions, but residents of Khenana informal settlement say they were threatened and harassed

Men living in Ramaphosa informal settlement accused of attacking women in Victoria Mxenge community

The municipality says tanks are delivering water to villages across the district

Tracking people infected with COVID-19 has become an important weapon in global responses to combatting the virus

Unclear why National Lotteries Commission was selling a non-essential good during lockdown

“I have no fence so I am forced to keep him indoors. Taking a walk is very important for his mental and physical benefit”

“The prevention of the spread of the virus can be achieved through self-isolation at home”

“There is every reason to fear that the virus may spread more fearsomely within our correctional system, and soon”

MEC calls for eradication of stigma against Covid-19 patients

“We have every right to the land and even have a court interdict protecting us from demolitions” says resident

An in-depth analysis of the social grants component of the relief package

City of Cape Town says five janitors clean the communal toilets daily

Millions of South Africans are dependent on the informal economy

Despite last week’s court order, new shacks are being erected next to Empolweni and the City is tearing them down.

A major step forward, but some warning lights are flashing

“Security services consider the lockdown a licence to use force and to punish civilians”

After a slow start, production has been ramped up

Councillors deny allegations that they distribute parcels unfairly

“If the government cannot give us food parcels as promised, it should let us go back to work and hustle for our families to eat”

“This is the first death, but these boys are causing each other serious injuries” says Eastern Cape village chief

Student bodies demand equal access for all students before remote learning can commence

With eight confirmed cases, mayor hoped to “break the chain”

A rapid increase in hunger levels in the poorest households undermines people’s ability to comply with the lockdown

No one knows with certainty what we should do, but we hope this stimulates public discussion

“We are not ignorant as people say. We are forced by our living conditions”