Lawyers dump PRASA after failure to pay R19 million: This means the agency has no lawyers in disputes, some of them imminent, involving billions of rands
Source: GroundUp News.
Domestic workers fight for national minimum wage: “We buy in the same shops, so we must be treated like all workers”
Source: GroundUp News.
SA’s new refugee regulations could have been drafted by Trump, says activist: Ban on political activity is “illegal, unconstitutional and contrary to the UN convention on refugees”
Source: GroundUp News.
Fed-up after 20 years on a waiting list, gogo builds her own house: Gloria Matebe collected the wood to build her new home from a nearby dumpsite
Source: GroundUp News.
Bonnytoun residents ignored by City of Cape Town: “We will not protest and destroy infrastructure like other communities do, but we are asking the City to do their work.”
Source: GroundUp News.
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