Covid-19: Uitenhage settlement gets water three weeks after protest

Local councillor donates food to families in need

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Brief | 4 May 2020

Covid-19: Banned from collecting firewood, grandmother cooks over a fire of plastic bottles

“The food tastes horrible and the smoke makes us cough,” says Mona Sias of Cookhouse

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News | 30 April 2020

Uitenhage hospital staff down tools after patient tests positive for Covid-19

If there is no personal protective equipment, don’t resume any duties, says union

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Brief | 29 April 2020

Covid-19 prolongs Makhanda water crisis

Hundreds of millions budgeted for bulk water and sanitation projects to be shifted to emergency response plan

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News | 29 April 2020

Covid-19: Zimbabwean nationals ask to be repatriated

Consul General says the embassy is compiling a list of people willing to return to Zimbabwe

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News | 22 April 2020

Covid-19: SASSA runs out of food parcels in Uitenhage

Councillors deny allegations that they distribute parcels unfairly

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News | 22 April 2020

Years long feud between villages claims life of 19-year-old

“This is the first death, but these boys are causing each other serious injuries” says Eastern Cape village chief

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News | 22 April 2020

Covid-19: Port St Johns mostly ignores mayor’s call for total shutdown

With eight confirmed cases, mayor hoped to “break the chain”

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Brief | 21 April 2020

Relocated fire victims made unwelcome by PE homeowners

“We have suffered enough in the hall and now they want to finish us off here”

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Brief | 19 April 2020

Covid-19: Lockdown life in crowded Lusikisiki

Villagers who come to town to shop have to wait hours for taxis to take them home

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Brief | 18 April 2020

Covid-19: Hospital staff demand protective gear and danger pay

NEHAWU meets with Dora Nginza hospital management to resolve complaints

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Brief | 17 April 2020

Resident alleges police beat and shot him for filming lockdown operation

Police minister “must act swiftly against the criminal elements in the SAPS”

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News | 17 April 2020

Police close immigrant-owned spaza shops “for their own safety”

“Police are only concentrating on road blocks” complains shop owner

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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

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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

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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

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Brief | 15 April 2020