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

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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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News | 10 April 2020

Covid-19: Shack dwellers desperate for water in Uitenhage

Mayoral coordinator promises sanitisers and water

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Brief | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: Informal settlement gets long-awaited toilets

“The municipality should not wait to act when there are pandemics like [Covid-19] to provide residents with basic services” says PE resident

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Brief | 6 April 2020

Covid-19: Clinic staff serve patients through a fence in Uitenhage

NEHAWU concerned about lack of patient confidentiality being exercised by staff

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Brief | 3 April 2020

Pothole of gold at the end of the rainbow

Children earn money directing cars around potholes hidden by a flooded road in Bethelsdorp

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Brief | 3 April 2020

Covid-19: PE taxis impounded in wildcat strike

Taxi operators demand compensation for reduced income, others massively hike fares

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News | 31 March 2020

Covid-19: Premier Mabuyane witnesses huge queues for social grants

“Our biggest concern is when the virus reaches rural areas and townships”

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Brief | 30 March 2020

Covid-19: Busy roads, long queues and children playing in the streets of Port Elizabeth

Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants

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Brief | 30 March 2020

Hundreds of incomplete RDP homes left to rot

National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality

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News | 30 March 2020