Community leaders warn of violence and conflict over land in Port Elizabeth
Residents of two informal settlements and a backyarder group are at each other’s throats over allocation of serviced sites
News | 4 March 2020
Health Department accused of failing to pay security guards at Motherwell clinics
Security guards were only paid 50% of their salaries in February
Brief | 3 March 2020
Staff down tools at Uitenhage clinic
Unions unhappy over stalled refurbishment of the hospital after the health department ran out of money
Brief | 3 March 2020
No end to water rationing in Makhanda
Water crisis could have been avoided, says residents’ association
News | 2 March 2020
Refugee mother owed nine months of child grants
Annie Tshimanga given the runaround by SASSA after her card was stolen
Brief | 2 March 2020
Addo shut down by protests
Residents of one of the area’s oldest informal settlements want houses, electricity, tap water, toilets and passable roads
Brief | 28 February 2020
Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement
Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn
Brief | 26 February 2020
Eastern Cape villagers promised water in 1998, still waiting
Over R23 million spent and the bills keep mounting, but the taps stay dry in Flagstaff villages
News | 25 February 2020
Taxis plough through sewage in Port Elizabeth
A drain has been overflowing on Old Uitenhage Road for six weeks
Brief | 25 February 2020