Covid-19: Children eat wild plants to survive as hunger explodes: New survey shows hunger doubled since lockdown
Source: GroundUp News.
Lockdown in pictures – Day 112: Burying our internet cables:
Source: GroundUp News.
Eskom users, fined for bridging electricity, beg to be reconnected: In Orange Farm many residents have been disconnected for two years because they can’t pay the R6k remedial fee
Source: GroundUp News.
“We want evictees back” says Mfuleni community leader: City says it will continue preventing the illegal occupation of its temporary houses
Source: GroundUp News.
Watch how Cape Town rain left a neighbourhood under water: Zwelitsha homes were flooded when Diep River burst its banks
Source: GroundUp News.
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