Articles for Joseph Chirume
Covid-19: Domestic worker gives away nearly half her salary
Desperate immigrants helped during lockdown
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
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
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
By Joseph Chirume and Mkhuseli Sizani
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
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
Brief | 24 March 2020
Informal settlements rise up against municipality’s “lies”
Roads blocked and cars stoned
Brief | 20 March 2020
Covid-19: Universities across the country close
Students asked to vacate residences at UCT
By Ashraf Hendricks and Joseph Chirume
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
Brief | 13 March 2020