Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane

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

Protesters say councillor’s office will remain closed until their toilets are cleaned

Uitenhage residents say seven toilets for 500 people are “full of faeces” and unusable

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Brief | 10 February 2020

By-elections briefly disrupted in Port Elizabeth

Protesters demand electrification of informal settlements

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News | 5 February 2020

Uitenhage protesters march on memorial service

Shackdwellers say promises of electricity have not been kept

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News | 29 January 2020

Parents, learners shut down Port Elizabeth school

Construction delayed after Eastern Cape education department fails to pay building contractors

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News | 27 January 2020

R77 million school construction project stalled since 2018

Public Works says Eastern Cape Education Department has not been paying bills

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News | 24 January 2020

Fifteen-year wait for KwaNobuhle bridge finally over

Construction underway on a new bridge where dozens of learners cross river daily

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Brief | 24 January 2020

Taxi driver told he owes municipality R68,000 for water

Water leak outside his house has not been fixed since 2018

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News | 21 January 2020

Families queue to get electricity reconnected

Relatives of deceased account holders must re-apply for benefits, says Nelson Mandela Bay municipality

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News | 16 January 2020

Pigs feast on human excrement as township drain overflows

KwaNobuhle residents have been complaining about leaks for two years, they say

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Brief | 9 January 2020

Open trench poses safety risk, say Uitenhage residents

Municipality says complaints will be “escalated as matter of urgency”

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Brief | 17 December 2019

Elderly couple rewards kind stranger with … a business

Rhadi’s Meat Place is booming

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Brief | 2 December 2019