Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Mount Frere residents occupy unfinished RDP houses

Over 900 homes are yet to be completed three years after construction started

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News | 4 August 2017

Farmers in Eastern Cape village have to give their crops away

They have nowhere to sell their maize

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News | 28 July 2017

Rural Eastern Cape village left without clinic for months

Provincial government has no explanation why

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Brief | 25 July 2017

Official threatened me with old age home, says granny

75-year-old woman says she was told she would be sent to an institution if she did not shut up about her RDP house

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News | 19 July 2017

Municipality fails to fix public pool despite years of promises

It stands empty and overgrown in Mdantsane, a lost opportunity for the surrounding community

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News | 12 July 2017

Petition launched after damning report on Eastern Cape schools

“This looks like a place for cows, but we are humans studying under these conditions”

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News | 6 July 2017

With no English teacher, parents fear children will fail matric

Eastern Cape school has only two teachers to teach seven subjects to five grades of students

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Brief | 30 June 2017

No houses for residents relocated two years ago

And no answers from the municipality on Mdantsane’s abandoned housing project

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News | 26 June 2017

14 people live in a one-room shack

Mdantsane woman is trapped by debt

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News | 19 June 2017

State breaks promise to fix mud schools

“We lost hope that we will ever receive a better school from government”

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News | 7 June 2017

Dilapidated shack is a day care centre for children

Parents in Isilatsha Village near East London hope for a good Samaritan

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News | 25 May 2017

Wait for houses causes bad blood in Mdantsane

Residents in Komponi say they should be prioritised over informal settlement

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News | 24 May 2017

Living with an open sewer for 15 years

Residents in East London say election promises were made to fix the problem

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Brief | 17 May 2017

What does it take to get the Eastern Cape Department of Education to fix a school?

Nearly three years later, a school damaged in a storm remains broken

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News | 11 May 2017

The school where children kneel on the floor and use chairs as desks

I would love to have my own desk, says grade one learner

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News | 4 May 2017

Systemic “failure in Eastern Cape education”

Thousands march to education department in King William’s Town on Freedom Day

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News | 28 April 2017