Covid-19: Eastern Cape doctor describes life-and-death decisions
“There’s no doubt that this is the biggest challenge we face in the living memory of being in practice for 20 years”
Interview | 21 July 2020
School Governing Bodies order immediate shutdown of primary schools
But Eastern Cape Department of Education says only Cabinet has the authority to close schools
News | 20 July 2020
Community leader shot in escalating electricity battle
Attempts by SAPS and municipality to intervene have not yet reduced tension
News | 20 July 2020
RDP homeowners and shack dwellers clash over electricity
Nkandla residents tried to remove connections from Endlovini informal settlement in Port Elizabeth
News | 17 July 2020
“There are toilets but we cannot use them”
Mobile toilets lie on the ground for weeks in PE informal settlement
Brief | 15 July 2020
Two years later: still no new toilets at Cofimvaba school
508 schools still without any sanitation in the Eastern Cape, says Equal Education
News | 14 July 2020
Overcrowded Bobani Village will soon get toilets
Some residents fear 846 communal toilets won’t be enough for over 3,000 shacks
Brief | 13 July 2020
“Empty promises by housing officials” trigger protests in Despatch
“It is easy for this government to shoot at us when we protest. But it is difficult to give us the houses we were promised since 2015”
News | 13 July 2020
Residents destroy home of man accused of sexually assaulting five children
“We demolished his house because the justice system has failed us”
Brief | 9 July 2020