Mud classrooms crumble while building materials sit on site

Contractor appointed to build prefab classrooms in Qombolo village disappeared six years ago

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News | 11 May 2023

“How are we going to survive without water?” asks protesting Rhodes University student

About 300 students joined Makhanda residents and civic movements in a march to City Hall to demand an end to the water crisis

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News | 8 May 2023

Eastern Cape principal accused of beating learners with a hose pipe

The principal is one of six teachers in the Eastern Cape currently under investigation by the department for use of corporal punishment

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News | 4 May 2023

For years, subsidies have been withheld from poorest Eastern Cape schools

Schools now set to receive missing R872.5-million

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News | 2 May 2023

Makhanda literacy project shows dramatic results

Whistle Stop School pulls learners out of class for short periods to teach them to read

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News | 28 April 2023

Parents and learners close Eastern Cape school

Kariega school is short of teachers, say protesters

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Brief | 25 April 2023

300 toilets were built on this site seven years ago. Now at last the promised houses may be built around them

Families are still living in shacks next to their broken toilets

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Brief | 25 April 2023

Graaff-Reinet college closed by student protest

Students complain of delay in payment of NSFAS allowance

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Brief | 24 April 2023

Gift of the Givers bring much-needed water to Makhanda homes

The taps have been dry in many high-lying areas for days, say residents, even though there’s water in the dams

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News | 20 April 2023

School buses are back after learner picket

Humansdorp learners missed school for two weeks because of lack of transport

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News | 20 April 2023

Kariega shackdwellers threaten to move into housing project

Families are eyeing vacant sites with electricity

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Brief | 20 April 2023

When you have to borrow R100 to get to a post office to draw your R800 salary

Closure of the Paterson Post Office in the Eastern Cape forces workers and pensioners to go to other towns

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News | 18 April 2023

Eastern Cape learners stuck at home without school transport

Department says it does not know how many learners need transport

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Brief | 13 April 2023

No water for three months in Sundays River Valley homes

Clinics and schools severely affected

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News | 11 April 2023

Community protest at court to demand release of local “crime fighters”

At least 16 people linked to a crime-fighting group face charges of assaulting suspected criminals in Butterworth

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Brief | 28 March 2023

Court challenge to SIU findings against Nelson Mandela Bay’s Covid spending fails

The Special Investigating Unit found irregularities in a R26.4-million toilet procurement during the national state of disaster

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Law | 15 March 2023