Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana
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
“Violence is the only language our government understands”
Ngcobo residents block R61, demand better roads
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
News | 7 August 2018
Rural school gets toilets thanks to private company
For years primary school children were forced to use an open field
Brief | 20 July 2018
Engcobo residents demand mayor step down
Community organisations allege corruption, demand municipality be put under administration
Brief | 18 May 2018
School children have to use a field as a toilet
We feel abandoned by the government, says parent
Brief | 11 May 2018