Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana
69-year-old woman scrap collector sleeps by the roadside
Eastern Cape women spend weeks on the road collecting ferrous metals
Brief | 10 December 2018
Call for dam to be fenced after child drowns
Open dams in Cofimvaba have claimed several lives
News | 23 November 2018
School has 196 learners and ten grades but only four classrooms
“I feel like I am running three different schools,” says principal
Brief | 1 November 2018
Strike in Ngcobo put on hold after two weeks
86 casual workers are demanding permanent positions
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 22 October 2018
Eastern Cape villagers must wait two months or walk miles to clinics
With only three mobile clinics to serve 93 places in Intsika Yethu, weekly visits are not possible
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 19 October 2018
Parents have to build toilets for Eastern Cape school
Learners at schools in Cofimvaba have to relieve themselves outside
By Yamkela Ntshongwana and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 12 October 2018
An Eastern Cape mother has been carrying her disabled son on her back for 23 years. Now at last he has a wheelchair
Good Samaritan comes to the rescue
News | 1 October 2018
14 arrests in Eastern Cape taxi protest
“A bullet missed me. I felt it passing my face”
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 20 September 2018
Woman opens her home to abandoned children
Nomtha Mboneli is caring for ten children in her village in the rural Eastern Cape
Brief | 6 September 2018