Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane

Covid-19: Angry taxi drivers set tyres alight outside police station in Uitenhage

Local police have impounded about 60 informal jikeleza taxis since the lockdown

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News | 14 April 2020

Covid-19: Shack dwellers desperate for water in Uitenhage

Mayoral coordinator promises sanitisers and water

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Brief | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Clinic staff serve patients through a fence in Uitenhage

NEHAWU concerned about lack of patient confidentiality being exercised by staff

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Brief | 3 April 2020

Staff protest and students boycott Eastcape Midlands TVET College

Unions and student organisations want lifestyle audit of college management

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Brief | 16 March 2020

Hospital general staff down tools

Uitenhage Provincial Hospital management to meet with union on Monday

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Brief | 13 March 2020

Covid-19: Washing hands is not easy when you have no running water

“It’s easy to keep your hands clean when you stay in a house because you have a tap inside, but it’s difficult when you have to walk long, tiring distances to fetch water”

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News | 12 March 2020

Former PE municipal workers demand jobs

Unions want immediate implementation of 2018 resolution to make workers permanent

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Brief | 11 March 2020

Education halted by protests over unpaid NSFAS allowances

Tertiary institutions across the country have experienced weeks of disruption. Some have resumed teaching.

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News | 9 March 2020

Woman raped in public library organises protest to demand better security

About 50 learners from various high schools protested outside Uitenhage Public Library

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Brief | 6 March 2020

Staff down tools at Uitenhage clinic

Unions unhappy over stalled refurbishment of the hospital after the health department ran out of money

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Brief | 3 March 2020

Furious Uitenhage protesters block roads, turn learners back from school, stone councillor’s office

Shack dwellers vow to bar politicians from Bobani Village until progress is made with electrification

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News | 25 February 2020

Hospital in dire straits after Eastern Cape Health Department fails to pay contractors

Refurbishment ground to a halt at the hospital when the department ran out of money. Union threatens to down tools

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News | 25 February 2020

Uitenhage students close down college, demanding NSFAS allowances

Principal promises allowances will be paid in three to four days

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Brief | 19 February 2020

Uitenhage residents want their pothole left alone

Land occupiers use water from the pothole for bathing and boil it for cooking

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News | 18 February 2020

Protesters disrupt funeral procession for ANC councillor’s mother

Over 400 mourners were stopped on their way to Matanzima Cemetery, Uitenhage

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Brief | 14 February 2020

Peace Village residents target funeral processions to protest about road

The protest tactic has worked before in Uitenhage

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Brief | 11 February 2020