Articles for Joseph Chirume

Students say private accommodation is expensive and unsafe in PE

Protesters demand municipality convert derelict buildings into residences

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Brief | 16 September 2020

Undertakers go on strike

Organisation representing 3,000 emerging firms wants regulations changed

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News | 14 September 2020

Toilets near Jeffreys Bay beachfront littered with faeces and rubble

“The state of these ablutions will give a bad image to our town”

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Brief | 9 September 2020

Day Zero in water stricken Mandela Bay

“We are in big trouble” says resident as dam levels for the metro fall below 19%

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News | 7 September 2020

1,500 homes were promised. Four years later not a single one has been built

Jeffreys Bay housing project moves at a snail’s pace but government promises construction will begin in October

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News | 28 August 2020

Taxi violence in Jeffreys Bay leaves commuters stranded all week

Driver with unlicensed firearm arrested

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News | 21 August 2020

R300,000 lotto grant for school comes to naught because of criminals

“They only left stumps of goalposts,” says primary school principal

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Brief | 5 August 2020

“Improve conditions at all health facilities” demands TAC

Protesters give Eastern Cape health department seven days to respond to demand to produce Covid-19 plan

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News | 30 July 2020

Municipality “deep cleans” shacks but there is no evidence this is useful against Covid-19

“We want residents to be relocated to better places in order for us to defeat this virus” says community leader

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News | 23 July 2020

Cooking up a storm: restaurant staff protest across South Africa

Curfew and alcohol ban cited as major factors as the industry sheds thousands of jobs

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News | 22 July 2020

Homeowners and shack dwellers clash over illegal electricity connections

“As long as the municipality does not provide us with electricity, the illegal connections will continue”

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Brief | 22 July 2020

“There are toilets but we cannot use them”

Mobile toilets lie on the ground for weeks in PE informal settlement

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Brief | 15 July 2020

Truck drivers protest against employment of immigrants

Civic organisations warn of risks of xenophobia

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News | 7 July 2020

New Brighton residents launch community patrols as crime runs riot

“Our children no longer care to see a dead body”

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News | 6 July 2020

Hundreds of new homes demolished in Port Elizabeth

Municipality demolishes shacks as they are being built

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News | 1 July 2020

Vandalism during lockdown drains Motherwell school’s budget

Parents have started patrolling the grounds to scare off vandals

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Brief | 29 June 2020