Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane
300 toilets were built on this site seven years ago. Now at last the promised houses may be built around them
Families are still living in shacks next to their broken toilets
Brief | 25 April 2023
Kariega shackdwellers threaten to move into housing project
Families are eyeing vacant sites with electricity
Brief | 20 April 2023
People’s lives are “not our responsibility” says NEHAWU leader
Hospitals disrupted as public sector strike intensifies
Vincent Lali, Chris Gilili, Liezl Human, Tariro Washinyira, Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik, Thamsanqa Mbovane, and Mkhuseli Sizani
News | 8 March 2023
Hundreds of public service workers down tools in defiance of court interdict
“We have nothing to lose now because we are earning peanuts anyway” says striking worker
By Chris Gilili, Tariro Washinyira and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 6 March 2023
“R350 is an insult. It is even less than the lunch of a minister’s son a day”
Activist groups demand Basic Income Grant of R1,500 at Kariega protest
Brief | 23 February 2023
Dam in Nelson Mandela Bay is at its lowest level ever
Impofu Dam at 7% and Churchill Dam may run dry by April
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 16 January 2023
Tension over electricity between families in shacks and government housing in Kariega
Wires swing like washing lines from the bungalows to the shacks
News | 23 November 2022
Public sector workers call on government to return to negotiating table
Unions reject 3% wage increase
By Chris Gilili, Thamsanqa Mbovane and Joseph Chirume
News | 22 November 2022
Kariega school opens five years after construction started
Eastern Cape Department of Education blames delays on protests
Brief | 14 November 2022