Articles for Thembela Ntongana

Beacon Bay community takes protest to mayor

Showdown looms as residents demand timeframes but Xola Pakati refuses to give any.

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News | 17 November 2017

Health care workers fight for recognition by department

“When I die, my children get nothing after so many years of working. I get nothing even when I retire; not even UIF”

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News | 10 November 2017

“We will die waiting for our houses”

Elderly shack dwellers in East London have been waiting for formal housing for 25 years

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News | 3 November 2017

“We want to create intolerance of violence”

Activists march against gender based violence in Buffalo City townships

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Brief | 3 November 2017

SASSA will have one month to test new grants payment system

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini acknowledges that “time is an issue”

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Brief | 30 October 2017

We want to buy electricity, say East London residents

But the electricity transformer in Duncan Village burnt out three years ago

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News | 26 October 2017

School students picket Coega offices

Equal Education says the development corporation has failed to deliver on its school programme

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News | 19 October 2017

Children with disability battle to find schools

“We have a serious crisis” says disability organisation

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News | 17 October 2017

Township boxing academy trains champions

Duncan Village gym operates from one room in an old building

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Feature | 6 October 2017

Fort Hare students protest over fees, water and electricity

Staff back at work after Alice campus shutdown

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Brief | 3 October 2017

Homeless and in a wheelchair at 63

Zolile Ncapayi was abandoned by his family ten years ago

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Brief | 23 September 2017

Promised RDP houses after six months: Nine years later they still waiting

“This is not a place I want my grandchildren to grow up in. I do not want to die here.”

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News | 21 September 2017

State fails to protect women in Muslim marriages, says advocate

Court told of “unmet constitutional obligation”

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Law | 31 August 2017

Better street lights would reduce crime, say Khayelitsha residents

“People are being targeted even going to the toilet”

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News | 30 August 2017

“We should be able to stay in cities where we work”

Activists from across the country meet to take housing struggle forward

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News | 29 August 2017