Articles for Joseph Chirume
Covid-19: Informal traders quietly defy ban on door-to-door selling
“I can’t sit at home while my family is starving”
News | 27 May 2020
Water tanks run dry in Motherwell informal settlements
“Residents spend time in long queues waiting to fetch water” says community leader
Brief | 19 May 2020
Union and nurses demand staff be isolated while awaiting Covid-19 test results
Health department appeals to Eastern Cape clinic staff to return to work
Brief | 13 May 2020
Staff picket over plan to convert TB hospital to treat Covid-19
Emergency medical services and unions say personal protective equipment is in short supply
Brief | 8 May 2020
Covid-19: Lear Corporation workers protest after being put on short-time
Company has apparently applied for TERS funding but employees have not been paid this yet
News | 7 May 2020
500 households in Empumelelweni have no toilets
Ward councillor says she didn’t know of the settlement
Brief | 7 May 2020
Covid-19: Zimbabwean nationals ask to be repatriated
Consul General says the embassy is compiling a list of people willing to return to Zimbabwe
News | 22 April 2020
Relocated fire victims made unwelcome by PE homeowners
“We have suffered enough in the hall and now they want to finish us off here”
Brief | 19 April 2020
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
News | 17 April 2020