South Africa|Eastern Cape|Kariega

Home Affairs bureaucracy: Woman can’t get an ID or register her child’s birth

Tashreeqa Isaacs’s life is mired in red tape because of an error that happened 18 years ago

Kariega’s new R25 million sports complex has opened

This follows several years of protests by residents demanding more facilities for their community

Kariega police vehicles back on the road after a year

Ten vehicles that had minor faults have now been repaired

Pothole users get water

Shack dwellers that used a flooded pothole to bathe their children now have clean water supply

School left with incomplete building

Construction company says it is owed R8 million by Eastern Cape education department

Protest against dismissal of Volkswagen shop stewards

Company says a disciplinary inquiry was held and that workers admitted to making false claims

More than half the vehicles at a Uitenhage police station are not working

A burst tyre is enough to put a police vehicle out of action for over seven months

Filthy train station has been cleaned … but not by PRASA

GroundUp report prompts Freedom Front Plus members to clean up De Mist station in Uitenhage

SASSA’s Uitenhage office only serves 50 people a day. This is what it looked like at 1:30pm