Covid-19: Port St Johns mostly ignores mayor’s call for total shutdown
With eight confirmed cases, mayor hoped to “break the chain”
Brief | 21 April 2020
Relocated fire victims made unwelcome by PE homeowners
“We have suffered enough in the hall and now they want to finish us off here”
Brief | 19 April 2020
Covid-19: Lockdown life in crowded Lusikisiki
Villagers who come to town to shop have to wait hours for taxis to take them home
Brief | 18 April 2020
Covid-19: Hospital staff demand protective gear and danger pay
NEHAWU meets with Dora Nginza hospital management to resolve complaints
Brief | 17 April 2020
Resident alleges police beat and shot him for filming lockdown operation
Police minister “must act swiftly against the criminal elements in the SAPS”
News | 17 April 2020
Police close immigrant-owned spaza shops “for their own safety”
“Police are only concentrating on road blocks” complains shop owner
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Homeless in PE ask what will happen after the lockdown is lifted
“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Township residents protect spaza shops from looters
Whoever loots these shops will get the people’s justice, warns Port Elizabeth resident
News | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: Patients turned away as PE clinic runs out of water
Ward councillor blames decaying municipal infrastructure for burst water pipe
Brief | 15 April 2020