Brief

Residents say Peace Village is a “pigsty”

Raw sewage bubbles up in yards and runs in the streets of RDP housing project in Uitenhage

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Brief | 22 August 2019

Tensions between communities reach “boiling point” over electricity in Port Elizabeth

Mayor Bobani promises electrification of informal settlements and removal of all illegal connections

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Brief | 22 August 2019

Farm workers say Oak Valley housing arrangements are racist

But farm retorts that its living conditions are humane

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Brief | 21 August 2019

“Our area is over 120 years old but still we have no electricity, houses, and roads”

PE residents barricade roads because of housing delivery failures

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Brief | 21 August 2019

College students protest against 80% attendance policy

Students claim that late payments of NSFAS allowances caused them to miss classes

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Eastern Cape village fights for its school

Children and teachers learn at the risk of the ceiling falling on them

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Mdantsane community divided over suspended ward councillor

Residents say the ANC is failing both sides by not acting

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Endlovini residents demand to know why electrification of their shacks stopped

About 50 people demonstrated outside Port Elizabeth city hall demanding electricity, toilets and water

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Brief | 20 August 2019

Parents shut dilapidated Tulbagh school

WCED says the “plankie” portion of the school is to be replaced next year

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Brief | 20 August 2019

Murderers of Bangladeshi shop owners in Newcastle convicted

Immigrant shop owners welcome life sentences for murderers of Mosharaf Hosain and Limor Mir

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Brief | 20 August 2019

Commuters left stranded by Metrorail in Cape Town

“Every day when I arrive at work I am already exhausted because of the shoving and standing inside the overcrowded trains.”

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Brief | 19 August 2019

Zimbabweans too intimidated to speak out, even in South Africa

“Government monitors social media. I am scared if I make negative comments, I would get blacklisted and not get my passport.”

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Brief | 19 August 2019

Former mine workers march to Parliament on Marikana day

Unpaid Benefits Campaign say it can prove workers are owed money

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Brief | 16 August 2019

A lifetime without an ID document

Thoko Nzimande is 63 and she has never had an identity document

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Brief | 16 August 2019

South African players on international draughts stage

Landikhaya Makeleni of KwaNobuhle hopes to challenge world champion Lubabalo Kondlo of New Brighton

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Brief | 16 August 2019

Prayer meeting held for shot teenager

Sinazo Kleinbooi, 14, was shot and killed on her way home from school

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Brief | 15 August 2019