Articles for Yamkela Ntshongwana

Strike in Ngcobo put on hold after two weeks

86 casual workers are demanding permanent positions

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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

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Brief | 19 October 2018

Parents have to build toilets for Eastern Cape school

Learners at schools in Cofimvaba have to relieve themselves outside

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News | 12 October 2018

14 arrests in Eastern Cape taxi protest

“A bullet missed me. I felt it passing my face”

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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

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Brief | 6 September 2018

“Violence is the only language our government understands”

Ngcobo residents block R61, demand better roads

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News | 7 August 2018

Rural school gets toilets thanks to private company

For years primary school children were forced to use an open field

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Brief | 20 July 2018

Engcobo residents demand mayor step down

Community organisations allege corruption, demand municipality be put under administration

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Brief | 18 May 2018

School children have to use a field as a toilet

We feel abandoned by the government, says parent

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Brief | 11 May 2018

Village in the dark since the dawn of democracy

Vuyisile Khabiqheya, 23, has lived his whole life without electricity

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Brief | 19 April 2018

Police failed to protect us from mob justice, says Eastern Cape family

Man’s house burned down after he was accused of a stabbing which never took place

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News | 9 January 2018

Family of 8 live in one-room mud house

Disabled daughter doesn’t get her grant because of a birth certificate problem

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News | 11 November 2017

“All I want to know is who killed my son”

Father of young man murdered by vigilantes says police have done nothing

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News | 1 November 2017

Arrests after botched circumcision

“I could not believe what I saw. I thought my son was dead.”

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News | 29 September 2017