Covid-19: PE clinic closes after a nurse dies and 11 staff test positive

Unions question Eastern Cape Health’s plan for staff at health facilities

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News | 11 May 2020

Staff picket over plan to convert TB hospital to treat Covid-19

Emergency medical services and unions say personal protective equipment is in short supply

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Brief | 8 May 2020

Youths grab toilets meant for people with disabilities

Two bucket toilets shared by 22 “disabled households” in Vastrap informal settlement

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News | 8 May 2020

Covid-19: Lear Corporation workers protest after being put on short-time

Company has apparently applied for TERS funding but employees have not been paid this yet

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News | 7 May 2020

Cookhouse residents refuse councillor’s offer of paraffin and wood

The community of KwaNoxolo township say they will accept nothing short of electricity

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Brief | 7 May 2020

Staff at Uitenhage hospital picket over Covid-19 concerns

Health department appeals for protests to stop

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Brief | 7 May 2020

500 households in Empumelelweni have no toilets

Ward councillor says she didn’t know of the settlement

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Brief | 7 May 2020

Covid-19: The message is in the hair

Uitenhage hair stylist “writes” with his dreadlocks

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Brief | 7 May 2020

Landmark rape ruling overturned by Supreme Court of Appeal

Rape survivor who sued the police for negligence should not get damages, court rules

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News | 6 May 2020

Covid-19 relocation of elderly and disabled people disrupted by residents in Port Elizabeth

Vastrap residents demand priority for Jaagvlakte sites

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Brief | 6 May 2020

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