Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Hardworking and dedicated, but these janitors in East London can go unpaid for weeks

Toilet cleaners also have to buy their own cleaning materials and chemicals and work without gloves or protective clothing

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News | 4 March 2019

Tsomo’s mystery water tankers

Municipality says it provides a water tanker but residents say they’ve never seen one

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News | 1 March 2019

“I want all my rapists to be arrested”

Rape survivor says the police have failed her time and again

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News | 20 February 2019

In this Eastern Cape school, learners borrow a broken toilet seat from one of the staff toilets

“This is not a school but a disaster waiting to happen”

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News | 30 November 2018

Eastern Cape villagers say they’ve been left out of huge water project

Xonxa dam won’t benefit us, say Xonxa villagers

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News | 29 November 2018

Nepotism in Eastern Cape municipality to be probed

Investigation follows weeks of protests in Stutterheim

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News | 22 November 2018

Taps often run dry in Eastern Cape village

Villagers say they have to draw water from a river and a dirty canal

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Brief | 31 October 2018

Cofimvaba’s R2 million traders’ stalls are empty after five years

Vendors say they can’t afford to buy R82 permits from the municipality

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Brief | 26 October 2018

Strike in Ngcobo put on hold after two weeks

86 casual workers are demanding permanent positions

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Brief | 22 October 2018

Eastern Cape villagers must wait two months or walk miles to clinics

With only three mobile clinics to serve 93 places in Intsika Yethu, weekly visits are not possible

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Brief | 19 October 2018

Stutterheim protesters burn municipal offices and clinic over lack of jobs

“Unfortunately the clinic mistakenly burnt down but it was never the plan”

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News | 18 October 2018

Parents have to build toilets for Eastern Cape school

Learners at schools in Cofimvaba have to relieve themselves outside

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News | 12 October 2018

Police assault case stuck in NPA

Eastern Cape man says he was accused of stealing fuel and badly beaten

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News | 10 October 2018

Post Office delivers mixed bag for social grant recipients

“We will die standing in this queue” says pensioner

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News | 4 October 2018

Sheep shearing shed used as a day care centre for 50 children

Community desperate for funds to finish building a proper centre

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Brief | 2 October 2018

Pay R4 if you want to use the toilet at Home Affairs

Security guards at Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape demand money from people who need the toilet

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Brief | 24 September 2018