Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
More than 20 families share one pit toilet in this East London settlement
The municipality has plans to relocate them once suitable land is identified
Brief | 8 September 2022
City intensifies operations against unlicensed amaphela taxis
SANCO intervenes to try and end the unrest and impasse with law enforcement agencies
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphokazi Mnyobe
News | 6 September 2022
Taxi drivers burn streets of Hout Bay
Amaphela are demanding that the City compensate them for loss of income since MyCiTi started operating
Text by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 5 September 2022
Seven arrested as taxi protest escalates in Cape Town
Nearly a dozen police vehicles, buses and cars have been torched during violent retaliation allegedly by amaphela drivers
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphokazi Mnyobe
News | 2 September 2022
No light at the end of the tender for Eastern Cape villages
Millions have been spent on the Sivumela project and eight years later, hundreds of households are still without electricity
News | 1 September 2022
Domestic worker who accused her employer of rape has waited four years for justice
DNA test backlog delays prosecution
News | 18 August 2022
R23-million Tsomo centre unfinished after seven years
Building was intended to make life easier for residents of the small Eastern Cape town
Brief | 18 August 2022
Pupils at this school have to study outside
Parents built and rebuilt Port St Johns school themselves
News | 17 August 2022
Eastern Cape towns without water for two weeks
Striking workers at Amathole District Municipality say they are not to blame
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 12 August 2022