Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Swift response contains fire at Cissie Gool House

Community applauds City firefighters, and calls for food, water and blankets following fire at old Woodstock Hospital

By

News | 28 January 2022

Hundreds of people conned out of R800 in jobs-for-cash scam

Police claim to be investigating but complaint was lodged over a month ago

By

News | 27 January 2022

Eastern Cape community health workers protest about job cuts

Union wants national government to “prevent a catastrophic health crisis in the Eastern Cape”

By

News | 18 January 2022

Another summer without running water for Khayelitsha families

City of Cape Town says its infrastructure is strained due to growing demand in the area

By

Brief | 14 December 2021

Shack dwellers demolish unoccupied shacks themselves

Khayelitsha task team is also trying to drain off sewage water

By

News | 10 December 2021

People with disabilities protest at Parliament

Qhakaza Disability Group demands better access to jobs, housing and transport

By

News | 8 December 2021

Backyarders occupy houses in Cape Town

City has “ejected” them and laid criminal charges

By

News | 7 December 2021

Children die in devastating Kraaifontein shack fire

Family pleads for help to bury Akhanani and Ayola Bulani

By

Brief | 6 December 2021

Philippi informal settlement residents say they are the “forgotten” community of Cape Town

The City says it is unable to assist because their shacks are on private land

By

News | 23 November 2021

Willowvale is where government projects go to die

“If we want things done here, we either protest or do them ourselves” says a resident of this part of the Eastern Cape

By

News | 9 November 2021

Corruption or incompetence? Rural Eastern Cape housing projects delayed for years

And a company that was paid R1.5 billion in tenders left households in Cofimvaba each with a pile of concrete slabs instead of toilets

By

News | 5 November 2021

An Eastern Cape municipality promised its residents houses over a decade ago. They’re still waiting

If residents accept a proposal by the province they will get houses with pit latrines and water tanks within two years

By

News | 5 October 2021

Nurses return to Willowvale clinic after two-month absence

This comes after years of erratic attendance and no nurses for the past two months

By

Brief | 23 September 2021

Desperate pensioners build their own clinic, but Eastern Cape health department can’t supply nurses

Department blames bad roads for failure to keep promise to send nurses

By

Feature | 16 September 2021

Poor policing blamed as vigilantes face justice in Mdantsane

Four members of a local anti-crime forum in court on several charges, including murder

By

Brief | 3 September 2021