Covid-19: Busy roads, long queues and children playing in the streets of Port Elizabeth

Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants

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Brief | 30 March 2020

Hundreds of incomplete RDP homes left to rot

National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality

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News | 30 March 2020

Covid-19: Police shut immigrant-owned spaza shops after Minister’s xenophobic statement

Open shops for us to buy locally and obey lockdown, say township residents

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News | 27 March 2020

Our living conditions deserve the same attention as Coronavirus, say angry shackdwellers

Roads blocked, buses set alight in Port Elizabeth

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News | 25 March 2020

Raw sewage flowing since October from broken pipe in PE

Residents say they have repeatedly reported the issue, but municipal workers never come

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Brief | 24 March 2020

Families moved to “serviced sites” say they are worse off than before

131 households in Jaagvlakte find themselves without water

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News | 24 March 2020

Residents vow to fight for services at funeral for boy killed by illegal electricity connection

Angry mourners defy government’s ban on gatherings of more than 100 people

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Brief | 23 March 2020

PE community leaders blame mayco member for failed relocation

MMC for Human Settlements Andile Mfunda under fire but standing firm

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News | 20 March 2020

Tensions high in informal settlement after child is electrocuted

Riemvasmaak residents plan action after the funeral of Royden Plaatjies

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News | 19 March 2020

Pensioner helps himself and his neighbourhood by recycling from illegal dumps

“The illegal dumping sites are a nuisance to our health and to the environment,” says PE resident Ntsokolo Konzapi

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Brief | 13 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

R4 million plan to clear dumpsites after death of children

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor also promises play parks

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News | 11 March 2020

School suffers teacher shortage after 100% matric pass rate

Enrolment numbers have doubled at Coselelani High School and teachers can’t cope

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Brief | 6 March 2020

Parents shut down school for second week demanding a fence

“The department does not take the safety of our children seriously”

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Brief | 5 March 2020

Community leaders warn of violence and conflict over land in Port Elizabeth

Residents of two informal settlements and a backyarder group are at each other’s throats over allocation of serviced sites

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News | 4 March 2020