Hundreds of security guards sent home without wages after Eastern Cape health department fails to pay contractors
Department promises to make payments from April, the start of the new financial year
Brief | 27 March 2024
“Cleaning and greening” workers dump rubbish on City Hall doorsteps in Gqeberha
Their stipends were paid a week late by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs
Brief | 22 March 2024
Vehicles set alight as protesters demand sanitation and water
Nelson Mandela Bay Mayco member promises action on stalled project
Brief | 19 March 2024
Library services crippled in Nelson Mandela Bay
Some have not reopened since Covid lockdown
News | 14 March 2024
Nelson Mandela University workers march for higher salaries
Marchers demand an 8% increase
Brief | 13 March 2024
Justice in limbo for another year as massive rail theft case stalls
A High Court review in the criminal case involving a former PRASA acting CEO accused of stealing 42km of railway line in the Eastern Cape, has yet to be set down for hearing a year after it was filed
News | 23 February 2024
Nelson Mandela University students block campus entrance over unpaid NSFAS funds
Lectures are taking place online
Brief | 20 February 2024
Education department’s electricity cut off for owing millions of rands
Eastern Cape provincial education department’s offices in Nelson Mandela Bay have been in the dark since December
Brief | 20 February 2024
Illegal dumping swamps Nelson Mandela Bay
“I challenge you to show me open spaces without heaps of garbage in our townships,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 2 February 2024