Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
No classes for thousands of children because school cannot meet Covid-19 requirements
Joe Gqabi District Municipality closed ET Thabane Primary School last year
News | 3 February 2021
Police use pepper spray against Covid-19 grant queue in East London
Desperate rush to collect grants as deadline looms
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Mkhuseli Sizani, Thamsanqa Mbovane, Masego Mafata, Lloyd Dyongman and Marecia Damons
News | 29 January 2021
What this municipality hadn’t done in years, Gift of the Givers did in just three days
Water quality still has to be tested, but Eastern Cape villages now have boreholes
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 4 December 2020
Covid-19: long queues are spreading the disease, warn health officials
But SASSA beneficiaries still have to queue for hours
By Joseph Chirume, Mkhuseli Sizani, Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 26 November 2020
Almost R254 million and 10 years later, still no water in villages
Taps of 17 villages in Matatiele, Eastern Cape, have never seen water
News | 16 November 2020
1,000 RDP homes substandard and unfinished
R174-million Eastern Cape building fiasco
News | 3 November 2020
People pay R50 bribe to post office staff to get their R350 Covid-19 grant
Women cry from hunger and sleep outside waiting to be served
News | 2 November 2020
Butterworth water protests politically motivated says municipality
“Officials live in East London … When they take a bath they spend an hour because they have enough water” responds protester
News | 23 October 2020
Unfinished RDP houses abandoned for nearly two decades
The housing department says it has since appointed contractors to complete two projects in Stutterheim
News | 19 October 2020