Articles for Mary-Anne Gontsana
Khayelitsha cleaners fed up with not getting paid on time
Every month since January, Khayelitsha’s refuse collectors and street cleaners in QA and PJS Section go in large groups to camp outside the supervisor’s office so they can get what is due to them.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 September 2014
Disabled and living in a shack
Regina Mahlombe is 64. She has become bed-ridden as a result of being stabbed by muggers in Gugulethu when she was 21. She yearns to leave her shack for a proper home.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 12 September 2014
RR Section’s overflowing toilets still unfixed
An unbearable smell lingers in the air of RR Section to the point where you can taste it. This is the daily struggle for Khayelitsha residents who live next to overflowing drains and toilets that still remain unfixed by the City of Cape Town.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 8 September 2014
Taxi owners distance themselves from strike
As all Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) returned to normal, taxi associations Cata and Codeta say they are happy with the outcome of the meeting they had on Tuesday, and that calm has been restored among taxi drivers.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 September 2014
Taxi drivers vow to continue protest
Taxi drivers angry at an increase in traffic fines have vowed to continue their protest if the authorities do not reduce fines.
Mary-Anne Gontsana and Katy Scott
News | 3 September 2014
Shortage of drug that prevents babies from getting HIV
The National Department of Health (NDoH) has sent out a circular nationally to all doctors, nurses and pharmacists informing them of a shortage of a paediatric anti-AIDS drug called nevirapine, used to prevent HIV infection in the newborn children of mothers with HIV.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 2 September 2014
Circumcision just got easier
In a bid to get thousands of men in the Western Cape circumcised, the national department of health (NDoH) officially cut the ribbon to launch the new mobile theatres which will be going around the Cape’s remote areas, to get males circumcised.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 1 September 2014
School transport a nightmare
Every day hundreds of parents depend on private transport operators to get their children to school and back home. The quality of service varies. GroundUp found some disturbing stories.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 27 August 2014
Cosatu holds conference on crime
On 22 August in the Cape Town City Hall, Cosatu convened an anti-crime conference in response to desperate pleas from communities asking for a more effective response to crime.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 22 August 2014