Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana
Six-year-old rescued from pit toilet in Eastern Cape school
At Mampondo Primary School, 135 learners and eight staff members share two pit toilets
By Yamkela Ntshongwana and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Brief | 17 October 2024
More than two years since construction started, toilets remain incomplete in Free State village
The contract was terminated due to unsatisfactory progress a year ago
Brief | 3 October 2022
Protesters halt lectures at University of Free State’s Qwaqwa campus
The students are demanding that accommodation allowances from NSFAS be paid to them instead of directly to landlords
News | 29 September 2022
Three nurses arrested in Harrismith
Clinic nurse accused of stealing medication to run private clinic
News | 22 September 2022
Residents take to the streets after Harrismith without power for two weeks
Electricity restored Sunday afternoon but municipality will need millions to fix its substation properly
News | 19 September 2022
Harrismith and several towns without power for six days
Substation at Maluti-A-Phofung municipality in the Free State still down. No response from municipality to our questions.
Brief | 12 September 2022
Nurses at Free State clinic can’t treat patients when it rains
The small, dilapidated clinic serves residents of Intabazwe, near Harrismith - but it is overwhelmed and under-stocked
News | 24 August 2022
The President came, the President went, and nothing changed
15 months after the Harrismith N3 protests, the people of Intabazwe say they remain forgotten
News | 18 August 2022
Scores arrested in Harrismith and N3 shutdown
Villagers of Intabazwe say municipality has forgotten them
Brief | 27 May 2021