Articles for Joseph Chirume

Zuma cabinet reshuffle: what people are saying

GroundUp asked members of the public what they think of the axing of the Minister of Finance

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News | 31 March 2017

PE families live with burst sewer pipe for three years

Municipality fails to keep promises

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News | 28 March 2017

School books and uniforms taken by sheriff in shack demolition

“It is becoming difficult to explain our situation to school teachers because this is the third time,” says 15-year-old

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News | 27 March 2017

School children sent home to use toilets during school hours

Bathrooms stripped bare by thieves

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News | 23 March 2017

“Home Affairs said I was a foreigner because of my vaccination marks”

PE woman claims she was turned away; Home Affairs denies this

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News | 8 March 2017

400 workers on strike at Kouga Municipality

Municipal workers want Public Works Programme contracts extended; mayor says jobs must be rotated

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News | 8 March 2017

Grandma under siege by garbage

80-year-old endures ten years of unbearable smells, flies and rubbish

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News | 27 February 2017

Residents have to stay in shacks after state fails to pay contractors

Standoff between Housing Development Agency, Department of Human Settlements and contractors leaves Chatty residents with unfinished homes

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News | 24 February 2017

Spar protester appears in court

Community turns out in numbers to offer support

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Brief | 23 February 2017

Police fire rubber bullets at Spar protesters

Residents say retailer has fenced off pathway to taxi rank

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Brief | 20 February 2017

Qunu residents desperate to relocate

Informal settlement has no services and a road will soon be built through it

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News | 17 February 2017

R21-million urban renewal project left to rot

Jeffreys Bay park abandoned to vandals and weeds

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News | 15 February 2017

New creche for PE informal settlements

Residents relieved that they do not have to travel far to drop off children

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Brief | 6 February 2017

PE municipality clears hazardous rubbish dumps

Garbage in Motherwell removed following GroundUp report

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Brief | 3 February 2017

Jeffreys Bay clamps down on car guards

Pilot scheme to be rolled out over Kouga Municipality

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News | 25 January 2017

Rubbish uncollected in Port Elizabeth township

“It has never been bad like this” says Motherwell resident

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News | 20 January 2017