Articles for Joseph Chirume
Staff picket over plan to convert TB hospital to treat Covid-19
Emergency medical services and unions say personal protective equipment is in short supply
Brief | 8 May 2020
Covid-19: Lear Corporation workers protest after being put on short-time
Company has apparently applied for TERS funding but employees have not been paid this yet
News | 7 May 2020
500 households in Empumelelweni have no toilets
Ward councillor says she didn’t know of the settlement
Brief | 7 May 2020
Covid-19: Zimbabwean nationals ask to be repatriated
Consul General says the embassy is compiling a list of people willing to return to Zimbabwe
News | 22 April 2020
Relocated fire victims made unwelcome by PE homeowners
“We have suffered enough in the hall and now they want to finish us off here”
Brief | 19 April 2020
Covid-19: Homeless in PE ask what will happen after the lockdown is lifted
“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Domestic worker gives away nearly half her salary
Desperate immigrants helped during lockdown
Brief | 16 April 2020
Covid-19: Protest action threatened as informal traders receive “preferential” treatment
Some PE residents angry over food parcel distribution to hawkers
Brief | 10 April 2020
Covid-19: Informal settlement gets long-awaited toilets
“The municipality should not wait to act when there are pandemics like [Covid-19] to provide residents with basic services” says PE resident
Brief | 6 April 2020