50,000 people and only one ambulance

Five out of six ambulances in the Sundays River Valley Municipality have broken down

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News | 28 September 2025

Municipal strike called off in Buffalo City

SAMWU members went on strike for a week over outsourcing

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Brief | 23 September 2025

Thousands of municipal workers take to the streets in Buffalo City, despite interdict

Roads around the city barricaded with burning tyres, but SAMWU denies its members were involved

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Brief | 17 September 2025

Teachers at Eastern Cape school give up their toilet to grade R learners

Jongikhaya teachers and learners share broken pit toilets

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News | 17 September 2025

Buffalo City municipal workers go on strike

South African Municipal Workersโ€™ Union wants an end to private contracting of primary municipal services

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News | 16 September 2025

Gang violence forces Kariega families to abandon their homes

More than 30 homes torched or vandalised as criminals target community leaders and witnesses in a suspected campaign of intimidation

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News | 10 September 2025

Vandals ruin water supply for Eastern Cape village

Only one 10,000-litre tank to supply hundreds of households

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Brief | 8 September 2025

Storm damaged classrooms left roofless for six years

Ngqusi Junior Secondary school in Centane have been waiting for the education department to fix its classrooms since June 2019

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Kariega clinic still closed seven weeks after gang shooting

Area has seen a surge in gang crime, residents say

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Fed up Gqeberha residents close clinic

A petition signed by 200 people demands the local health service improve

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Brief | 2 September 2025

Buffalo City wastes millions on vanity projects while essential infrastructure crumbles

More than R200-million blown on mismanaged tourist attractions while beaches are polluted by sewage

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Feature | 1 September 2025

Fed-up with unresponsive officials, Gqeberha protesters torch trucks

Second day of protests by shack dwellers in Westville

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Brief | 27 August 2025

A decade and millions of rands later, Eastern Cape community centre still incomplete

Tsomo multi-purpose facility was meant to take nine months to build

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Gqeberha protesters torch bus, stone truck, demanding electricity

Separate protests erupt in Westville and Bayland

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Contractor speaks out on Makana pump supply debacle

Municipality bungled a tender then scapegoated a director in an unfair dismissal

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News | 25 August 2025

Security guards say they were fired for joining unions

Striking guards block offices in Cofimvaba

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News | 22 August 2025