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Students at Rhodes University’s Starling House residence at the Gilbert Street campus say they have to go outside to water tanks in the yard to fetch water to flush toilets and bath and do laundry, because taps run dry frequently in Makhanda.We are pulling out of the dying Makana municipality,” Professor Sizwe Mabizela, Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, told GroundUp on Monday. The institution is seriously considering constructing its own water treatment plant to mitigate the ongoing water … [Read more...] about Rhodes University Plans Water Independence From Municipality

Protesters blocked the R334 for two days after a shack dweller was killed in a car accident on his way to relieve himself in the bush across the road.A protest erupted on the busy R334 in Kariega after a 51-year-old shack dweller was killed in a car accident on his way to relieve himself in the bush on Monday morning. The protest was started on Monday by about 100 people and continued on Tuesday morning. Residents of the informal settlement, in ward 45, have been demanding toilets and houses for … [Read more...] about Man Killed Crossing the Road to Relieve Himself

Pretoria: 03 September 2024 [embedded content] Brief interviews with SAMSA ship surveyor, Ms Mbali Mbonambi and 2OPIC official, Mr Vishal Pragraj while on aerial search for containers recently lost at sea on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coastline. A search for cargo containers lost overboard off a number of vessels along South Africa’s Indian Ocean corridor over the last month continues, while two of the vessels most recently affected – the MV CMA CMG Belem, currently in the port of Ngqurha, and … [Read more...] about Search on for Containers Lost Overboard off South Africa’s Indian Ocean

The Press Ombud has found that IOL violated the Press Code on four counts in an article about Renaldo Gouws’s infamous video.Renaldo Gouws is not to everyone’s liking. Like Marmite. So when IOL published a video clip in which he is seen and heard spewing racist hate speech, supporters and detractors of the controversial politician both lined up to have their say. It mattered little to both sides when the full video from which the 15-second clip was taken, providing some context, made it into the … [Read more...] about Ombud Finds IOL Broke Press Code on Renaldo Gouws Video

Activists picketed outside the High Court in Gqeberha in 2022 against seismic surveys off the Wild Coast. Archive photo: Joseph Chirume The Constitutional Court has refused to hear an appeal by Shell and Impact Africa on the right to conduct seismic surveys off the Wild Coast. The Supreme Court of Appeal had found that the right to conduct the surveys was granted unlawfully. However the Constitutional Court agreed to hear from Wild Coast communities and environmental justice organisations who … [Read more...] about Wild Coast: Constitutional Court Says No to Shell Appeal Bid