Eastern Cape family waits for promised right to farm land where their ancestors worked

Department of Rural Development and Land Reform silent on why it’s taken years to issue a lease promised in 2019

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News | 3 October 2023

Protesters block busy Kariega road amid five-day power outage

Nelson Mandela Bay councillor says many homes were plunged into dark after an explosion at the Mabandla substation

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Brief | 28 September 2023

Children in the Eastern Cape are not being fed enough at school

Some schools are not getting even the minimum funding from the National School Nutrition Programme

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News | 28 September 2023

As bad as living in shacks, say flooded Qunu’s RDP residents

Formal housing as well as informal settlements flooded in low-lying areas of Gqeberha

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Brief | 27 September 2023

A few words in honour of Mkhuseli Sizani

Former GroundUp reporter embodied journalism’s finest ideals

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Obituary | 23 September 2023

Makhanda households fed up with living in a sewage nightmare

Residents of Hooggenoeg and Scotts Farm say the sewer system has been dysfunctional for over a decade

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News | 18 September 2023

Hamba Kahle Mkhuseli Sizani

29 March 1981 to 12 September 2023

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Obituary | 15 September 2023

Another Kariega leader shot dead

Two shootings one year apart have unnerved the community

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News | 12 September 2023

Four years and R7-million later, villages still sit without power

Mzimvubu Municipality has been incapable of finishing an electrification project it started in 2018

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Brief | 12 September 2023

Makhanda without a post office since July

People from the town and surrounding areas are having to travel to Port Alfred

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News | 8 September 2023

Half a cabbage is a meal for seven people as hunger grips the Eastern Cape

Gift of the Givers says it’s inundated with calls for help

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News | 7 September 2023

Protesters support vigilante taxi drivers outside KwaNobuhle court

Five “jikeleza” drivers charged with attempted murder

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Brief | 4 September 2023

Eastern Cape municipality hires manager facing corruption charges

Ntabankulu Local Municipality says it has done nothing wrong, but residents are protesting over the appointment

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News | 1 September 2023

Community Work Programme workers upset over R3,700 a month earning limit

Workers say they must submit bank statements for three months and are fired if they earn above this limit

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News | 25 August 2023

Government must intervene in Intercape bus attacks

Judge “determined not to be misunderstood” in ordering transport minister, Eastern Cape MEC and police to take action

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Law | 24 August 2023

Khayelitsha Cookies prefers hiring people to using machines

From just two staff in 2005 to almost 80 women now, the hand baked cookie business has risen from humble beginnings

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Photo Essay | 18 August 2023