Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana
Eastern Cape immigrant shop owners say they pay for protection from “xenophobia”
Last week immigrant-owned shops in Cofimvaba were shut down for a day by SANCO
News | 12 April 2019
Living just metres from a railway line
Small community says they are terrorised by criminals and police
News | 28 March 2019
Shoddy RDP house never fixed
“I have been in prison, not once, not twice, but many times. But here I am living on an unfinished house,” says struggle veteran
Brief | 7 March 2019
Eastern Cape residents must make way for taxi rank
Second time in four years that the people of Bhekela informal settlement will be moved
Brief | 22 February 2019
69-year-old woman scrap collector sleeps by the roadside
Eastern Cape women spend weeks on the road collecting ferrous metals
Brief | 10 December 2018
Call for dam to be fenced after child drowns
Open dams in Cofimvaba have claimed several lives
News | 23 November 2018
School has 196 learners and ten grades but only four classrooms
“I feel like I am running three different schools,” says principal
Brief | 1 November 2018
Strike in Ngcobo put on hold after two weeks
86 casual workers are demanding permanent positions
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
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
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 19 October 2018