Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana
Parents have to build toilets for Eastern Cape school
Learners at schools in Cofimvaba have to relieve themselves outside
By Yamkela Ntshongwana and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 12 October 2018
An Eastern Cape mother has been carrying her disabled son on her back for 23 years. Now at last he has a wheelchair
Good Samaritan comes to the rescue
News | 1 October 2018
14 arrests in Eastern Cape taxi protest
“A bullet missed me. I felt it passing my face”
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 20 September 2018
Woman opens her home to abandoned children
Nomtha Mboneli is caring for ten children in her village in the rural Eastern Cape
Brief | 6 September 2018
“Violence is the only language our government understands”
Ngcobo residents block R61, demand better roads
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
News | 7 August 2018
Rural school gets toilets thanks to private company
For years primary school children were forced to use an open field
Brief | 20 July 2018
Engcobo residents demand mayor step down
Community organisations allege corruption, demand municipality be put under administration
Brief | 18 May 2018
School children have to use a field as a toilet
We feel abandoned by the government, says parent
Brief | 11 May 2018
Village in the dark since the dawn of democracy
Vuyisile Khabiqheya, 23, has lived his whole life without electricity
Brief | 19 April 2018