Harare — At least 16 people have died and close to 30 injured when a four-storey building collapsed onto a smaller one in Cameroon’s largest city, Douala. According to AFP, medical officials said that a three-year-old girl was one of the victims, and three other children were still in intensive care. Emergency personnel did not […]
Tag: Urban Issues and Habitation
KwaDukuza Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has agreed to include over 300 households from the settlement in a new housing project More than 300 households living at Sheffield informal settlement will now be included in a KwaDukuza Municipality mass housing development, according to a court settlement this week. The agreement brings to an end nearly five-years of […]
Eastern Cape villagers say they have given up asking their councillors for help Taps ran dry seven years ago in Ngqamakhwe Ngcisininde village, Eastern Cape. About 1,000 households have no piped water. The Amathole District Municipality says a water project to address this is at a planning stage. The only tap ran dry seven years […]
Protesters want former Tafelberg crèche to be used for a community centre instead Members of District Six associations marched on Friday to object to a proposed homeless shelter on the site of a former crèche. They want the Tafelberg crèche site to be used for a community centre instead. One of the associations protesting was […]
The Durban Metro Police have intensified their crime prevention clean-up campaign in a quest to get rid of drug dens and reduce crime in the city. According to eThekwini Municipality the campaign, launched by Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda in January, has seen a decline in drug dens and the illegal occupation of railway lines by drug […]
The House of Representatives has concurred with the Senate for the creation of Gbah Township in Bomi County. Gbah is situated within Zekpeh Clan, Senjeh District in Western Liberia. In a communication Tuesday, 11 July during the 17th Day sitting of the 2nd Quarter of the 6th Session, the Senate informed the House that it […]
All critical stakeholders must do more to provide conveniences. It is a common sight in many of our towns and cities to find people urinating or defecating either on the roadside or in seemingly obscure corners, sometimes in the full glare of passers-by. Since people who are hard-pressed in the public often must ease themselves […]
Jos — Residents of Farinkasa Kerana and Sabon Gari communities in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State were, yesterday night thrown into mourning following fresh attacks by gunmen, which left 12 persons dead. This came as Governor Caleb Mutfwang imposed a 24-hour curfew on the Mangu council following recent attacks that led to the […]
Marsabit — The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry through Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has kicked off the recruitment of 4,000 unskilled tree nursery attendants into the ‘Green Army’ initiative Green Army tree nursery attendants will support the 15 billion national tree growing and ecosystem restoration programme by propagating seedlings, participating in tree planting […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed deep sadness to the devastating and tragic loss of innocent lives at the Angelo Informal Settlement, in Boksburg. A gas accident which happened last night has claimed the lives of 17 residents of the squatter camp. The President extends his heartfelt condolences to the families that have lost loved ones. […]
“The municipality must fix these streets because we cannot live like this” Roads in Phola Park village near KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga, are in a dreadful state. Its nameless (unsigned) gravel roads are eroded, deeply rutted and potholed, with tall grass on the verges. Cars get stuck in the mud. “The municipality must fix these streets because […]
Community policing forum members says better lit streets will make crime prevention and patrols easier Streetlights across the community of Bester near KwaMashu in Durban were switched on last week after nearly 18 months of living in the dark. In June residents and members of the community policing forum pleaded with the eThekwini Municipality to […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Most of the delegations in the Zaghouan governorate are in the grip of a disastrous environmental situation due to the blockage of the project to set up domestic waste processing centres. These projects, which have been held up in the design phase, are part of the programme of the National Agency for Waste […]
Nakuru — The death toll from the Londiani Junction market accident has risen to 51. Kericho Governor Erick Mutai said Saturday those who died in the mass casualty crash included 2 children, 18 women and 31 men. On of the survivors succumbed while receiving treatment at the Nakuru Provincial General Hospital Intensive Care Unit while […]
City says it spends R300-million a year cleaning up illegal dumps but can’t make headway without community support Stinking rubbish is piled up on the streets, on any open ground, near churches, schools and public parks, and at a temporary relocation site in Delft South on the Cape Flats. Residents say they have been living […]
GPO residents voted ANC because they believed their relocation would be delayed if they didn’t, says resident Thozama Nyathela. “We were only being fed empty promises.” “This is one of the most forgotten places,” says resident Thozama Nyathela of GPO informal settlement in Dutywa, rural Eastern Cape. GPO has been around for 25 years, yet […]
Gone are the days when the vote of South Africans in the townships was almost guaranteed for the ruling ANC. Dozens of young people in Diepsloot who live without electricity, sometimes for weeks on end, say the period where people voted for the ANC without attaching any performance expectations is long gone. The youth, most […]
Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year People living in Taiwan informal settlement in Khayelitsha have been protesting over the slow implementation of a housing project meant to benefit them. On 22 June, nearly 200 people marched to the Western […]