Articles for Joseph Chirume

R20 an hour is an insult, say marchers

Nationwide protests against proposed minimum wage

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News | 25 April 2018

Township homeowners complain about land occupiers

They “are living in comfort because they have houses of their own, while we don’t have” responds occupier

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News | 11 April 2018

PE residents homeless because of poorly built RDP houses

People have been living for a decade in temporary structures next to their waterlogged houses

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News | 9 April 2018

School children recycle waste for food

“This is helping my family very much because my parents do not work,” says seventh-grader

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News | 3 April 2018

Losing the war on waste in filthy Port Elizabeth suburb

Councillor says awareness campaign not happening in his ward where the place is strewn with rubbish

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Brief | 23 March 2018

PE officials and residents debate land occupations

Municipality encourages people to register on housing database but backyarders say the wait is too long

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News | 16 March 2018

Don’t take us away from our customers, traders ask Mayor Athol Trollip

Informal vendors in Port Elizabeth relocated to site without customers, water, electricity or toilets

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News | 15 March 2018

Public pools unused while children drown in canal

Residents of Kirkwood want public swimming areas opened

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Brief | 12 March 2018

Community rebuilds Motherwell creche after fire

Sinethembe pre-school has opened in a new building after it was razed to the ground

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Brief | 8 March 2018

Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy

Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit

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News | 23 February 2018

Addo residents sick of sewage spills

Municipality says system is ageing and blocked

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News | 15 February 2018

Afrikaans-speaking parents threaten to close school

Students are failing because there is no teacher to teach their mother tongue

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News | 12 February 2018

It’s business as usual for some in drought-stricken Kouga

Residents say they are used to the taps running dry, but how long will Day Zero last?

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News | 5 February 2018

Drought: Eastern Cape towns facing Day Zero

Dam levels in the Gamtoos Valley critically low

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News | 31 January 2018

Broken Motherwell drains fixed at last

Municipality sends a team after GroundUp story

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Brief | 29 January 2018