Articles for Joseph Chirume

Covid-19: Homeless in PE ask what will happen after the lockdown is lifted

“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC

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News | 17 April 2020

Covid-19: Domestic worker gives away nearly half her salary

Desperate immigrants helped during lockdown

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Brief | 16 April 2020

Covid-19: Protest action threatened as informal traders receive “preferential” treatment

Some PE residents angry over food parcel distribution to hawkers

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Brief | 10 April 2020

Covid-19: Informal settlement gets long-awaited toilets

“The municipality should not wait to act when there are pandemics like [Covid-19] to provide residents with basic services” says PE resident

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Brief | 6 April 2020

Covid-19: Busy roads, long queues and children playing in the streets of Port Elizabeth

Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants

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Brief | 30 March 2020

Hundreds of incomplete RDP homes left to rot

National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality

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News | 30 March 2020

Raw sewage flowing since October from broken pipe in PE

Residents say they have repeatedly reported the issue, but municipal workers never come

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Brief | 24 March 2020

Covid-19: Universities across the country close

Students asked to vacate residences at UCT

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News | 17 March 2020

Pensioner helps himself and his neighbourhood by recycling from illegal dumps

“The illegal dumping sites are a nuisance to our health and to the environment,” says PE resident Ntsokolo Konzapi

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Brief | 13 March 2020

R4 million plan to clear dumpsites after death of children

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor also promises play parks

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News | 11 March 2020

Health Department accused of failing to pay security guards at Motherwell clinics

Security guards were only paid 50% of their salaries in February

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Brief | 3 March 2020

Addo shut down by protests

Residents of one of the area’s oldest informal settlements want houses, electricity, tap water, toilets and passable roads

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Vandals make drought worse in Graaff-Reinet

Taps ran dry last year for thousands of residents in drought-stricken town

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News | 24 February 2020

Failing pump floods Addo street with sewage

“Our municipality does not care about its residents”

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Brief | 20 February 2020

Strike by Emergency Medical Services ends after four days

EMS employees in Graaff-Reinet went on strike last week Tuesday

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Brief | 18 February 2020