Articles for Joseph Chirume
Nelson Mandela University disrupted as NSFAS fails to pay fees
University management will provide emergency financial support
Brief | 7 May 2018
Humansdorp families stuck in emergency housing since 2011
“The municipality promised to relocate us to another site but nothing has happened so far”
News | 30 April 2018
R20 an hour is an insult, say marchers
Nationwide protests against proposed minimum wage
By Zoë Postman, Joseph Chirume, Eryn Scannell and Annie Cebulski
News | 25 April 2018
Colchester’s roads still in a mess, six months after contractor was fired
Some workers have not been fully paid
News | 17 April 2018
Township homeowners complain about land occupiers
They “are living in comfort because they have houses of their own, while we don’t have” responds occupier
News | 11 April 2018
PE residents homeless because of poorly built RDP houses
People have been living for a decade in temporary structures next to their waterlogged houses
News | 9 April 2018
School children recycle waste for food
“This is helping my family very much because my parents do not work,” says seventh-grader
News | 3 April 2018
Losing the war on waste in filthy Port Elizabeth suburb
Councillor says awareness campaign not happening in his ward where the place is strewn with rubbish
Brief | 23 March 2018
PE officials and residents debate land occupations
Municipality encourages people to register on housing database but backyarders say the wait is too long
News | 16 March 2018