Protesters uproot electricity poles because they are not connected

The Nomakanjani informal settlement community in Gqeberha has been blocking Addo Road for four days over a lack of electricity

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Brief | 22 July 2022

Teachers and learners at this school use a field as a toilet

Fort Beaufort school has 570 learners and 15 teachers and toilets don’t work

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Brief | 21 July 2022

Gqeberha’s secret salt harvesters

People who lost their jobs during Covid pandemic turn to abandoned salt pans

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News | 20 July 2022

Gqeberha mother wants to leave the settlement where her son drowned

Residents of Waterville want to be moved from the abandoned salt pans where they live

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Brief | 19 July 2022

Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted

“I can’t hail Mandela Day when my children don’t have a future,” says Gqeberha resident

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Brief | 19 July 2022

One 5,000-litre water tank for 5,000 people in Nelson Mandela Bay

“I am not the government!” RDP homeowner tells community desperate for water from his tap

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Brief | 15 July 2022

Police foil taxi protest over price of fuel

But a shutdown by taxis over fuel hikes may still happen

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Brief | 14 July 2022

“Our children play in fields full of poop and pee” says protester

Hundreds of Bayland informal settlement residents block roads in Gqeberha over electricity and basic services

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Brief | 14 July 2022

Learners protest against “drastic and unacceptable” changes to school infrastructure law

Equal Education members demand Eastern Cape education MEC intervene

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Brief | 14 July 2022

“We live in a war zone” says mother pleading for better policing in Gqeberha

Nelson Mandela Bay district police commissioner agrees with protesting residents that there is no police visibility

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News | 13 July 2022

City blames illegal connections for “exploding” transformers

Townships in Kariega without power since the weekend

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Brief | 12 July 2022

Usable water in Nelson Mandela Bay is down to 2.3% of dam capacity

“This water crisis has put our lives on hold”

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Feature | 12 July 2022

Kariega by-election: “I voted without taking a bath. I was stinking!”

“No water, no vote” say voters fed-up with Nelson Mandela Bay’s water shortage

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Brief | 8 July 2022

School site abandoned as contractor accuses education department of failing to pay

Meanwhile learners at Eyabantu Senior Secondary school in Fort Beaufort are crammed into tiny temporary classrooms

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News | 7 July 2022

Fire finishes off Motherwell library

The library has been closed since the start of the pandemic

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Brief | 7 July 2022

For Unakho Kewana, loadshedding is life-threatening

East London 18-year-old can’t breathe properly without her oxygen device

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Brief | 6 July 2022