Articles for Joseph Chirume

PE nurses strike escalates

Health workers are worried about their safety after a spate of assaults

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News | 8 October 2019

Don’t rob us, plead ambulance drivers

Emergency services workers protest in PE townships

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Brief | 7 October 2019

Medical staff demand better security at Motherwell clinic

Strike enters second day

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Brief | 3 October 2019

Dwindling water supply could lead to “job blood-bath” says Business Chamber

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality dams at 36%

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Brief | 30 September 2019

Uitenhage workers and students complain about college and union

But Eastcape Midlands College denies allegations

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Brief | 20 September 2019

Services delayed, inaccessible after wave of protests in Motherwell

“This has definitely affected development in the ward” says councillor

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News | 16 September 2019

PRASA’s Swartz back in court in October

Hearing postponed again

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Brief | 9 September 2019

“The list of Mugabe’s crimes is endless”

GroundUp’s Zimbabwean reporters write about what Robert Mugabe meant to them

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News | 6 September 2019

Transgender activists parade in Uitenhage

“It is very difficult to be who we are”

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Brief | 5 September 2019

Traditional leaders want land for initiation schools

Informal settlements in Nelson Mandela Bay are crowding out schools, they say

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News | 2 September 2019

Hundreds protest in Booysens Park to be moved to “safer areas”

Resident of Vastrap informal settlement have previously expressed their unhappiness with high crime rates in the area

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Brief | 28 August 2019

Small-scale farmers demand access to land

“Our animals graze in yards and graveyards because there is no land for us”

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News | 23 August 2019

Tensions between communities reach “boiling point” over electricity in Port Elizabeth

Mayor Bobani promises electrification of informal settlements and removal of all illegal connections

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Brief | 22 August 2019

Prayer meeting held for shot teenager

Sinazo Kleinbooi, 14, was shot and killed on her way home from school

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Brief | 15 August 2019

Spike in vigilante killings in Port Elizabeth

Police say communities resist investigations

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Brief | 7 August 2019

Asylum seekers have to wait a year for an appointment in Port Elizabeth

Appointment note leaves people seeking refugee status vulnerable to arrest

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Brief | 7 August 2019