Villagers donate money to build a clinic in a shack

Villagers in the rural Eastern Cape struggling to access health services have tried to create their own infrastructure

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News | 9 September 2020

Toilets near Jeffreys Bay beachfront littered with faeces and rubble

“The state of these ablutions will give a bad image to our town”

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Brief | 9 September 2020

Loan shark steals SASSA cards in Eastern Cape

Beneficiaries forced to change PINs

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News | 9 September 2020

Councillor accused of demanding sex for job

150 residents protest in small Eastern Cape town to demand he be removed

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News | 8 September 2020

Matthew Goniwe’s funeral remembered: Here are previously unpublished photos from 1985

Nyameka Goniwe, widow of Matthew, died a week ago.

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Photo Essay | 8 September 2020

Students shutdown college over NSFAS payments

NSFAS to visit the campus this week to respond to students’ concerns

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Brief | 8 September 2020

Day Zero in water stricken Mandela Bay

“We are in big trouble” says resident as dam levels for the metro fall below 19%

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News | 7 September 2020

IT crash blamed for leaving children hungry

Department of Justice says its working to resolve 129 outstanding payments

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News | 7 September 2020

Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days

NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase

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Brief | 3 September 2020

Township parents build their own speed bumps to slow traffic

Fears for children’s safety after hit and run accident

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News | 2 September 2020

PE’s ward committee members protest against muncipality

They demanded backpay, skills development training and personal protective equipment

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News | 28 August 2020

1,500 homes were promised. Four years later not a single one has been built

Jeffreys Bay housing project moves at a snail’s pace but government promises construction will begin in October

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News | 28 August 2020

Unemployed Uitenhage men are making food gardening “fashionable” again

Food garden developed during the Covid-19 lockdown is showing results

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Brief | 28 August 2020

Five villages share one 5,000-litre water tank

Taps ran dry in the rural Eastern Cape village of Ngquthu seven years ago

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Brief | 27 August 2020

Residents dissatisfied as ANC chief whip returns to troubled Stutterheim

“They sent back the person who failed us”

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News | 26 August 2020

Woman with concrete slab told her house is complete

About 250 foundations laid in 2014 still have no RDP houses on them

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News | 26 August 2020