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Multimillion rand project to protect Prasa infrastructure launched By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - In a bid to protect the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's (Prasa) infrastructure, the entity has trained at least 270 volunteers in the Western Cape to join its newly launched programme, the People’s Responsibility to Protect Project (PR2P). The more than R100 million project was launched by the Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula, the Prasa board, the police, civil and community organisations at the Langa train station yesterday. The project was expected to be implemented in five phas...

1,000 homeless deaths last year as millions to help rough sleepers has gone unspent The total figure was up 37% on the 710 UK deaths reported in the 2019 study. Almost 1,000 homeless deaths occurred last year across the UK, a social justice group said earlier this month. Now it has been reported that money that was supposed to help rough sleepers was unspent. The Museum of Homelessness (MoH) said the figure rose by more than a third on the previous year, and called for more to be done to stop such “terrible loss of life”. The museum’s Dying Homeless Project recorded 976 deaths across th...

PICTURED: Homeless man, stock image READING West MP Alok Sharma talks this week about plans to end rough sleeping. He writes; The Government is committed to ending rough sleeping in this Parliament and to fully enforcing the Homelessness Reduction Act. That is why we will be spending more than £750 million in 2021/22 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. The Government has this week announced the allocation of a key element of this overall investment: £310 million in funding through the Homelessness Prevention Grant that will be made available to local authorities in 2021/22 to suppo...

Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government's continued insistence that its Everyone In policy on housing rough sleepers is still "ongoing" has been called into question by a senior homeless policy expert. On Wednesday, the ministry attacked Sir Keir Starmer for claiming it was “turning [its] back on people without a home” by not renewing the Everyone In drive against rough sleeping. In an unusual move, the ministry’s official Twitter account said the Labour leader’s claim was “not true” and that the drive spearheaded by Baroness Louise Casey to successfully find accom...