Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane

Shack dwellers who own houses will have their shacks destroyed, warns municipality

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is expected to start “formalising” about 140 informal settlements across the city this week

Protesters open assault case, alleging municipal official pepper-sprayed them

Protesting unemployed security guards were demanding jobs with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality

Unemployed security guards shut down municipal customer care centre

They have been demanding municipal jobs since 2019

Even the rats have left this household now that the cupboard is empty

Brother and sister used to rely on Covid-19 grant

Dispute over quality of prison food

Correctional services say claims by Prisoners at Leeuwkop Maximum Prison are “nowhere near reality”

Protesters torch ten electricity poles in Kariega

Several communities surrounding Area 11 plunged into darkness since Saturday

Eastern Cape MEC warns of system collapse because of unpaid school water bills

Mayor calls for army to end taxi strike

Protesters in Nelson Mandela Bay have forced the closure of clinics, schools, shopping centres and disrupted many other vital services

Parents win three year battle to build school

Construction of Kariega school was stalled because education department failed to pay contractors