Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane

Police use pepper spray against Covid-19 grant queue in East London

Desperate rush to collect grants as deadline looms

Filthy train station has been cleaned … but not by PRASA

GroundUp report prompts Freedom Front Plus members to clean up De Mist station in Uitenhage

SASSA’s Uitenhage office only serves 50 people a day. This is what it looked like at 1:30pm

Shack dwellers disrupt water and electricity project in Uitenhage

The two projects are meant to benefit elderly, disabled and blind residents whose 500 informal structures are being built in the area

The weeds are growing waist-high on Eastern Cape train stations

Toilets, basins, light bulbs, doors have been stolen

Blind pensioner left in the rain without answers outside SASSA office

SASSA says her old age grant will be paid in February

In the midst of water restrictions, clean water gushes out of taps in Uitenhage

But the municipality says it is “winning the war against leaks”

Streets in central Uitenhage pile up with garbage for months

Nelson Mandela Development Agency says awarding a cleaning contract has been held up by a bidder’s objection

Covid-19: long queues are spreading the disease, warn health officials

But SASSA beneficiaries still have to queue for hours