Covid-19: PE taxis impounded in wildcat strike
Taxi operators demand compensation for reduced income, others massively hike fares
News | 31 March 2020
Covid-19: Premier Mabuyane witnesses huge queues for social grants
“Our biggest concern is when the virus reaches rural areas and townships”
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Johnnie Isaac
Brief | 30 March 2020
Covid-19: Busy roads, long queues and children playing in the streets of Port Elizabeth
Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants
By Joseph Chirume and Mkhuseli Sizani
Brief | 30 March 2020
Hundreds of incomplete RDP homes left to rot
National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality
News | 30 March 2020
Covid-19: Police shut immigrant-owned spaza shops after Minister’s xenophobic statement
Open shops for us to buy locally and obey lockdown, say township residents
News | 27 March 2020
Our living conditions deserve the same attention as Coronavirus, say angry shackdwellers
Roads blocked, buses set alight in Port Elizabeth
News | 25 March 2020
Raw sewage flowing since October from broken pipe in PE
Residents say they have repeatedly reported the issue, but municipal workers never come
Brief | 24 March 2020
Families moved to “serviced sites” say they are worse off than before
131 households in Jaagvlakte find themselves without water
News | 24 March 2020
Residents vow to fight for services at funeral for boy killed by illegal electricity connection
Angry mourners defy government’s ban on gatherings of more than 100 people
Brief | 23 March 2020