Articles for Joseph Chirume
Bakkie drivers protest against law banning lifts to learners
They say they’re needed because school transport is a shambles
News | 19 June 2017
Workers fear job losses after forestry burns
200 people evacuated from Longmore Sawmill
News | 9 June 2017
Land occupiers say “we will die fighting for our shacks”
Protest turns violent after High Court eviction order served on Ehlovini shack dwellers
News | 8 June 2017
Hundreds of outsourced workers on strike at Coega export company
Outsource company disputes union’s right
Brief | 6 June 2017
Rubbish dump is a hazard for some but a lifeline for others
“I know that the discarded food could be dangerous to the health of me and my child, but I don’t have an option.”
News | 30 May 2017
Farm labourers dumped in remote town after wage dispute
“It is unfortunate that in this age people are still being treated like animals.”
News | 23 May 2017
600 land occupiers facing eviction in Port Elizabeth
“We will not leave this place after suffering so much”
News | 19 May 2017
Panic buying and violent protests after power failure in Port Elizabeth
Residents thought municipality to blame
News | 16 May 2017
Port Elizabeth parents shut down school in anger at education department
With a teacher-learner ratio of over 40 to 1, they accuse government of failing to listen to their requests for three additional teachers
Brief | 12 May 2017