South Africa|Eastern Cape

14 years after court order, government starts building special school in Makhanda

Amasango Career School’s permanent premises to be completed by 2027

No water for cooking or washing: KwaNobuhle families battle system breakdown

In one informal settlement, only one of 15 standpipes has water - and only for two hours at a time

No lectures for nearly two months now at Gqeberha college

Students have been protesting at Port Elizabeth TVET College over unpaid NSFAS allowances

Learners and teachers march for safer schools in Nelson Mandela Bay

SAPS promises more police visibility around schools

Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year

Eastern Cape transport and education departments are being taken to court

The only post office open in Makhanda has not had electricity for nine months

Staff use their cellphones to light their work

Health workers march in Gqeberha to demand permanent jobs

Medical workers protest against attacks on them

20 armed attacks on EMS workers in the past year.

131 schools in Nelson Mandela Bay robbed, mostly at gunpoint, in five months

Many teachers are afraid to report for duty