Education department’s electricity cut off for owing millions of rands

Eastern Cape provincial education department’s offices in Nelson Mandela Bay have been in the dark since December

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Brief | 20 February 2024

KwaNobuhle families have to get their water from a hole in the ground

Taps have been dry since Friday because of a damaged main pipe

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Brief | 14 February 2024

Cathcart Hospital rumours spark week of protests

Police are monitoring as stoning incidents continue on N6

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Brief | 13 February 2024

R9.7-million spent and three years later, still no bridge

Eastern Cape villagers say Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality has been promising them the bridge for 20 years

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Brief | 12 February 2024

Cofimvaba scholar transport protest enters third week

The Eastern Cape has increased its scholar transport budget to accommodate a shortfall of 12,000 learners

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News | 6 February 2024

Illegal dumping swamps Nelson Mandela Bay

“I challenge you to show me open spaces without heaps of garbage in our townships,” says Gqeberha resident

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Brief | 2 February 2024

Kariega land occupiers say municipality demolished their shacks illegally

Ten families who settled on land in 2019 have to move to make way for housing development

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News | 26 January 2024

Cofimvaba parents protest after scholar transport cancelled

Dozens of learners are unable to get to Sikhoba Nombewu Technical School

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Brief | 26 January 2024

Meticulous Eastern Cape effort to keep vultures from extinction

Vultures disabled by powerline collisions are taken care of and given a place to breed

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News | 25 January 2024

Amatola Water misses deadline to fix Makhanda’s water woes yet again

Upgrades to water treatment works more than six years behind schedule. New deadline is April 2024.

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News | 24 January 2024

Education department blames transport department for scholar transport fiasco

Hundreds of learners are stuck at home and not in school

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Brief | 24 January 2024

13-year-old boy walks and hitchhikes for an hour to get to school every day

Farm school has no scholar transport for about 80 keen learners

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Brief | 23 January 2024

Eastern Cape families who were promised houses have been given … toilets

Municipality and province disagree about housing list

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News | 22 January 2024

Kariega clinic reopens after residents volunteer to act as security guards

Ten residents have volunteered to rotate guarding the clinic until the stolen fence is replaced

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Brief | 17 January 2024

Staff refuse to work at clinic after fence stolen

“We demand our safety as well as patients’ safety,” says nurse

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Brief | 12 January 2024