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Everything you need to know about social grants | GroundUp
WEBApr 7, 2017 · The Social Assistance Act of 2004 and regulations of the act provide the legal framework for the administration of seven social grants. Grants are targeted at categories of people who are vulnerable to poverty and in need of state support. These are older people, people with disabilities and children.
They were relocated for the Nandoni dam. 22 years later they have …
WEBAug 13, 2020 · Decades after construction started on the Nandoni Dam in Limpopo, some of the communities that were either relocated or lost agricultural land, say the terms of the agreement to move them have still not been honoured by the government. This despite the Public Protector issuing a report with remedial directions over ten years ago.
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WEBSep 12, 2024 · GroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.
KZN learners miss school because they can’t cross the river during ...
WEBApr 8, 2022 · Children near Kranskop miss school because they cannot cross the Dimane River during heavy rains. Photo: Nokulunga Majola. “We cannot have children not go to school because they cannot cross the river when it is full,” says Sakhile Masikane, of Emakhabeleni, outside Kranskop in northern KwaZulu-Natal. When it …
Conflict in Hout Bay as City demolishes structures | GroundUp
WEBJun 11, 2020 · The City of Cape Town’s Law Enforcement and the Anti-Land Invasion Unit, as well as SAPS, carried out a demolition operation in Hangberg, Hout Bay early on Thursday, as a winter storm swept across Cape Town. Eye witnesses described conflict between residents and law enforcement. Residents erected burning barricades after police dispersed them ...
How Africans and Indians are trying to bring peace to Phoenix
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Blessing Nyoni adjusts the spectacles of Mahatma Gandhi at Inanda near Phoenix. Journalists Greg Arde and Mlungisi Mbele live in Durban. They witnessed, reported and photographed the unrest from 8 to 14 July. Last week they visited Phoenix and met Blessing Nyoni and Sajeev Singh, who are trying to …
District Six: This time the bulldozers are there to build houses
WEBJul 24, 2020 · This space will contain 212 housing units by 2022, at a total cost of R325 million. In total, 954 homes will be constructed, according to the plans. The homes are to go to people who were evicted from District Six by the apartheid government, and who lodged restitution claims between 1994 and 1998. According to the plans, 75% of the dwellings ...
A year after the floods, the Gumbi family are still hoping to find …
WEBApr 11, 2023 · For the Gumbi family from KwaNgcolosi in Durban, who lost three young children, the tragedy of the floods is still very present. For days after the children disappeared, the family say, they used their bare hands to dig through the mud near the home, hoping to find the children’s bodies in the debris.
Almost a century later, land claimants get back thousands of …
WEBOct 27, 2020 · Land reform and rural development specialist David Mayson, who first became involved while working for the Surplus People Project in 1998 and then later from 2012 as lead consultant for the Department of Land Affairs and Commission for the Restitution of Land Rights, says negotiations were a drawn-out “stop-start, stop-start” affair.