Police close immigrant-owned spaza shops “for their own safety”
“Police are only concentrating on road blocks” complains shop owner
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Homeless in PE ask what will happen after the lockdown is lifted
“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC
News | 17 April 2020
Covid-19: Township residents protect spaza shops from looters
Whoever loots these shops will get the people’s justice, warns Port Elizabeth resident
News | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: Patients turned away as PE clinic runs out of water
Ward councillor blames decaying municipal infrastructure for burst water pipe
Brief | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: Meet the entrepeneurs who are making masks
Wearing masks may help reduce the spread of the epidemic, if other social distancing measures are also implemented
By Thamsanqa Mbovane and Zimbili Vilakazi
News | 15 April 2020
Covid-19: Angry taxi drivers set tyres alight outside police station in Uitenhage
Local police have impounded about 60 informal jikeleza taxis since the lockdown
News | 14 April 2020
Covid-19: Meat vendors stripped of their livelihood
“We understand the coronavirus is dangerous. But our children are hungry at home”
News | 14 April 2020
Covid-19: Protest action threatened as informal traders receive “preferential” treatment
Some PE residents angry over food parcel distribution to hawkers
Brief | 10 April 2020
Patients turned away from PE clinic after nurse contracts Covid-19
Staff say they will return to work when they get their test results
News | 10 April 2020