EPWP workers to lose their jobs in eThekwini
About 9,000 workers who are under the Expanded Public Works Programme will lose their jobs this month as their contracts...
Elitsha
Published in Elitsha, a bi-monthly newspaper distributed in Alexandra and Orange Farm in Gauteng, Khayelitsha in Western Cape, Mdantsane and Zwide in Eastern Cape
A week of misery for informal settlement residents
Informal settlement residents in the City of Cape Town, Winelands and Overberg district municipalities continue to bear the brunt of...
Storms and flood waters devastate Cape Town’s informal settlements
The severe weather conditions in the Western Cape over the past weekend have left a trail of destruction for residents...
City of Cape Town to remove homeless people from city centre
Over 200 homeless people living on the streets of the Cape Town CBD are set to be evicted by the...
Uprising of the youth in Kenya
The youth in Kenya are angry. On 25 June 2024, they stormed the National Assembly, setting part of it on...
Not a tap nor a toilet for the 200 people living in this Cape Town informal settlement
Over 200 people, who are residents of the Gate 7 informal settlement, near the Maitland Cemetery, have been living without...
Lesufi’s Green Army face a jobless tomorrow
After receiving sad news last week that their contracts won’t be renewed, thousands of Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP) workers...
Residents protest for EPWP cleaning jobs
Shack dwellers barricaded Baden Powell Drive in Khayelitsha this Wednesday with burning rubbish and tyres to demand employment as street...
Fetching water is daily pain for Vhembe women
Fetching water. That is how several women in water-starved rural villages in Vhembe, Limpopo spend most hours of their days,...
New Khayelitsha police station has no forensics capacity, computer or phone
Lieutenant colonel Linda Mangaliso, Makhaza police station commander, told Elitsha during a brief interview that the police station is short-staffed...
