Informal settlements
Several CT informal settlements left flooded after heavy rainfall
These include Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Philippi, Delft, Macassar and Kuils River.
Heavy rain has caused the Eerste River to overflow at Sandvlei in Macassa during the early hours of Saturday morning.
The blaze broke out earlier on Saturday.
Premier Sihle Zikalala said the province was carrying on with its own programme, outside of the national department's de-densification plan, and it had alerted Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.
The plan, which has been presented to Parliament, follows undertakings by Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu that the dwellers would be moved to temporary structures in the coming weeks.
Professor Alex Broadbent questioned why the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the same globally while contexts, particularly in Africa, are different.
How are we going to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in informal settlements when the social and health needs of these populations are so often invisible, asks Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
Families living on the privately-owned land, called Klein Akker, were kicked off the property this week.
A cold front has been forecasted for Gauteng, causing a significant drop in temperatures.
Residents in Zakariyya Park and Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg on Friday said they were tired of the recent mushrooming of informal settlements in their areas.
The organisation launched the data on informal settlement looking at the norms and practices.
Two hundred officers have been deployed to Philippi where six anti-gang unit members were shot and wounded on Wednesday morning.
Finance MMC Funzela Ngobeni will present his budget speech, totaling expenditure of R58 billion for the 2019/2020 financial year.
Director at Ikhaya Lami Andrea Bolnick says there are solutions for disasters like the recent blaze that gutted Khayelitsha, leaving dozens displaced.
There are more than 1,000 pending farm eviction cases in areas under the Drakenstein Municipality in the Cape, of which 434 are currently in court.
Johannesburg EMS' Robert Mulaudzi says while levels of the Jukskei River have exceeded 50%, they will not conduct emergency evacuations yet.
The wall will be built as soon as possible to separate homeowners and illegal land occupants in the area.
This was announced on Tuesday by Mayor Patricia de Lille who delivered the city's budget for the 2017/18 financial year.
Johannesburg Emergency Services’ Robert Mulaudzi says winter is often a difficult time with at least 189 informal settlements within the city.