Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana
Nurses in village clinic buy medical essentials with their own money
Health workers have to draw blood without gloves
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
News | 12 April 2019
Living just metres from a railway line
Small community says they are terrorised by criminals and police
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
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
Brief | 22 February 2019
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