Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana

Over 1,000 villagers without tap water for three months

Ncorha Bulk Water Project will only be completed at the end of 2020.

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News | 22 October 2019

Fed up Eastern Cape villagers told to move shacks, promised new homes

“We watched them build proper shelters for those who came after us” says villager

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News | 28 August 2019

Grade R learners told to avoid the school toilets and use the field

Eastern Cape Education Department says Mangelengele Primary School is too small to invest in

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News | 15 August 2019

Government’s multi-million rand filling station stands empty for years

Qamata chief vows it will not open until municipality acknowledges local land ownership

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News | 11 July 2019

Nurses in village clinic buy medical essentials with their own money

Health workers have to draw blood without gloves

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News | 27 May 2019

Eastern Cape immigrant shop owners say they pay for protection from “xenophobia”

Last week immigrant-owned shops in Cofimvaba were shut down for a day by SANCO

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News | 12 April 2019

Living just metres from a railway line

Small community says they are terrorised by criminals and police

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News | 28 March 2019

Shoddy RDP house never fixed

“I have been in prison, not once, not twice, but many times. But here I am living on an unfinished house,” says struggle veteran

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Brief | 7 March 2019

Eastern Cape residents must make way for taxi rank

Second time in four years that the people of Bhekela informal settlement will be moved

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Brief | 22 February 2019