Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Butterworth water protests politically motivated says municipality

“Officials live in East London … When they take a bath they spend an hour because they have enough water” responds protester

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News | 23 October 2020

Unfinished RDP houses abandoned for nearly two decades

The housing department says it has since appointed contractors to complete two projects in Stutterheim

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News | 19 October 2020

Millions spent, six years gone, still no electricity for Eastern Cape villagers

Only two of the seven villages located near Mount Frere have electricity

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News | 13 October 2020

Small business owners block the N2 over PPE contracts

Business owners accuse the Alfred Nzo district municipality of only giving contracts to company’s from other towns

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News | 1 October 2020

Families drink from drains as water trucks break down

Three out of four water trucks in Eastern Cape town are in for repairs

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News | 29 September 2020

Community beats three suspected criminals to death in Eastern Cape

Police blamed for the rise in vigilantism

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News | 11 September 2020

Villagers donate money to build a clinic in a shack

Villagers in the rural Eastern Cape struggling to access health services have tried to create their own infrastructure

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News | 9 September 2020

Loan shark steals SASSA cards in Eastern Cape

Beneficiaries forced to change PINs

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News | 9 September 2020

Five villages share one 5,000-litre water tank

Taps ran dry in the rural Eastern Cape village of Ngquthu seven years ago

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Brief | 27 August 2020

Residents dissatisfied as ANC chief whip returns to troubled Stutterheim

“They sent back the person who failed us”

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News | 26 August 2020

Generous households punished with high water bills

Residents of Eastern Cape town who shared their water face bills of up to R13,000

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News | 7 August 2020

Fix our schools, learners tell Eastern Cape Education Department

Equal Education has given the department two weeks to attend to schools with water and sanitation problems

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News | 22 July 2020

Two years later: still no new toilets at Cofimvaba school

508 schools still without any sanitation in the Eastern Cape, says Equal Education

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News | 14 July 2020

Eastern Cape mud school “falling apart” say parents

Parents say they have been asking the department for a new school for over 20 years

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News | 18 June 2020

East London community warned to remove illegal connections by Monday

Cuba residents have been protesting since Tuesday in a bid to stop the power utility from disconnecting them

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News | 5 June 2020