South Africa|Eastern Cape

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Australian mining company pulls out of Wild Coast mine

Ongoing violence prompts MRC's decision

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Brief | 18 July 2016

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Zimbabwean told Road Accident Fund doesn’t help foreigners

But the Fund says its employees are meant to treat everyone equally

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News | 14 July 2016

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Candidate for ward council comes to rescue of fire victims

Residents accuse current councillor of neglecting them

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News | 14 July 2016

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Residents of Qunu informal settlement protest on margin of ANC rally

“I have seven years of moving around Port Elizabeth as a squatter"

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News | 13 July 2016

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Councillor gets free water, but residents have to pay her husband

Chris Hani residents up in arms over water

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News | 13 July 2016

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Students shutdown PE university, accusing administration of breaking agreement

Sasco vows to continue until university agrees to its demands

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News | 11 July 2016

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No effort by municipality to fix leaking water and sewage

For years, residents of Ekwarini have lived in damp squalor, and the Buffalo City administration has done nothing about it

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News | 11 July 2016

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From security guard to Kasi artist

Eastern Cape painter works from a small mud room

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News | 8 July 2016

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Please don’t kill us, say people with albinism

"Our bodies do not cure anything"

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Brief | 7 July 2016

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Tension between those with and without electricity in Mdantsane

Illegal connections of shack-dwellers cause power outages for neighbours

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News | 6 July 2016

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Immigrant traders threatened in Port Elizabeth

Police accused of xenophobia

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News | 4 July 2016

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Rubbish piles up in PE

Residents, municipality play the blame game

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Brief | 28 June 2016

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Eastern Cape government and taxis strike a deal

R1.7 million for taxi associations

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Brief | 23 June 2016

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Colchester residents demand return of land

Protesters block Addo Elephant National Park entrance

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News | 22 June 2016

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Carnival to commemorate 1976 aims to keep youth off drugs

But young people say they know little about the Soweto uprising

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Brief | 17 June 2016

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East London students miss exams because of taxi strike

Education department tells schools to reschedule

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Brief | 14 June 2016