Articles for Joseph Chirume
Unemployed youths threaten to shut shopping mall
Local young men and women are demanding jobs at a Port Elizabeth shopping centre
Brief | 18 September 2020
Students say private accommodation is expensive and unsafe in PE
Protesters demand municipality convert derelict buildings into residences
Brief | 16 September 2020
Undertakers go on strike
Organisation representing 3,000 emerging firms wants regulations changed
News | 14 September 2020
Toilets near Jeffreys Bay beachfront littered with faeces and rubble
“The state of these ablutions will give a bad image to our town”
Brief | 9 September 2020
Day Zero in water stricken Mandela Bay
“We are in big trouble” says resident as dam levels for the metro fall below 19%
By Thamsanqa Mbovane and Joseph Chirume
News | 7 September 2020
1,500 homes were promised. Four years later not a single one has been built
Jeffreys Bay housing project moves at a snail’s pace but government promises construction will begin in October
News | 28 August 2020
Taxi violence in Jeffreys Bay leaves commuters stranded all week
Driver with unlicensed firearm arrested
News | 21 August 2020
R300,000 lotto grant for school comes to naught because of criminals
“They only left stumps of goalposts,” says primary school principal
Brief | 5 August 2020
“Improve conditions at all health facilities” demands TAC
Protesters give Eastern Cape health department seven days to respond to demand to produce Covid-19 plan
News | 30 July 2020