Employee scared to walk back home after work
Chumisa, an employee of Debonairs, a pizza outlet, is scared every evening she has to…
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Municipality Uses Political Pressure Groups to Talk to Community
The community of Rethabiseng (east of Pretoria) had a public meeting on 29 September 2020…
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Shutdown by informal dwellers in South of Johannesburg
In the early morning of Monday, 28 September, lots of people from the informal settlements Kokotela in Lawley 2, Lakeview, Kuvukiland and Phumulamqashi (south of Johannesburg), were woken up by their leaders with the message that they should get ready for a total shutdown…
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New HIV Self-Screening And Testing Tools
On 13 and 14 August 2020, different groups of Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) were taken in for training for the new HIV self-screening and testing tools which took place at Bekkersdal Clinic, Westonaria on the Westrand of Johannesburg…
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Tensions between the Community and ELM Workers in Bophelong
Tensions flared up in Muvhango Extension Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) recently resulting in an Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) electricity team of workers fleeing the area…
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Rethabiseng Residents Abandoned by Municipality
Rethabiseng, Proper Section (East of Pretoria) residents have had a water crisis since April 2020. Residents have to go to another section to get water or run after the water tank, and if you don’t have a wheel borrow it’s hard to collect water…
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Community Clash Over Food Parcels
Community development workers and community stakeholders in Muvhango Ward 6, Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) were supposed to give 1000 food parcels to the needy…
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Muvhango Community In Bophelong Clean A Catchpit
… the Muvhango community in Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) cleaned up a catchpit in their area, led by a young man named Moshe Ngidi* (not his real name)…
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COVID-19 in Waste Water according to Gauteng Water Report
The WRC study also states that “over 45% of the Gauteng population is living asymptomatic with the virus, as traces have shown from what has been picked up [in wastewater] by the sampling tests thus far”…
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Safe Needles Provided for Drug Addicts
On 18 August, an organisation called Anova Health Institute visited the Palm Springs landfill site to provide voluntary HIV/AIDS testing for drug addicts that live around the area…
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Snake Park Residents Protest for Electricity
Residents who stay in an informal settlement next to Doornkop Ext 4 (Soweto) were marching and protesting against electricity cut-offs…
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High Water Bill Plunges Tembisa Household Into Darkness
“The house had its power cut because of a massive water bill. The bill is estimated around R113 000. To force Hadebe to pay; the authorities have resorted to the strategy of cutting off electricity supply to the yard. Hadebe…”
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