Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane

Child carers plead for help from Social Development

Many in Port Elizabeth have not recieved a salary since March

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Brief | 7 October 2020

Police rescue man from vigilante justice in Uitenhage

Bobani Village residents destroyed a suspect thief’s shack and banished him from the informal settlement

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Brief | 1 October 2020

Learners are only attending this Uitenhage school once a week

Physical distancing impossible in current building, and department says construction on a new school can only be completed next year

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Brief | 30 September 2020

Community blocks project to house elderly

They are demanding that the municipality first build them toilets

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Brief | 22 September 2020

Stop making patients wait outside, TAC tells clinics

Patient describes how they fear nurses

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News | 21 September 2020

Anger erupts over PE water shortages

“We will not tolerate this forever because water is a basic need”

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News | 18 September 2020

Uitenhage councillor excludes ward committee members for squabbling over projects

Committee members accuse the councillor of withholding money

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Brief | 18 September 2020

Foster parents paid after “technical glitch”

About 6,000 grants were paid late in the Eastern Cape

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Brief | 17 September 2020

“We will hit them where it hurts” warns NEHAWU leader

Union vows to shut down government services, including SARS and SASSA

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Brief | 14 September 2020

Foster parents distraught after not receiving grants this month

6,000 grants not paid due to “technical glitch”

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News | 11 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

Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days

NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase

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Brief | 3 September 2020

PE’s ward committee members protest against muncipality

They demanded backpay, skills development training and personal protective equipment

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News | 28 August 2020

Unemployed Uitenhage men are making food gardening “fashionable” again

Food garden developed during the Covid-19 lockdown is showing results

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Brief | 28 August 2020

Can you guess the order these photos were taken?

An expensive troubled bridge over water

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News | 26 August 2020