Addo shut down by protests

Residents of one of the area’s oldest informal settlements want houses, electricity, tap water, toilets and passable roads

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement

Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn

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Brief | 26 February 2020

Eastern Cape villagers promised water in 1998, still waiting

Over R23 million spent and the bills keep mounting, but the taps stay dry in Flagstaff villages

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News | 25 February 2020

Taxis plough through sewage in Port Elizabeth

A drain has been overflowing on Old Uitenhage Road for six weeks

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Hospital in dire straits after Eastern Cape Health Department fails to pay contractors

Refurbishment ground to a halt at the hospital when the department ran out of money. Union threatens to down tools

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News | 25 February 2020

Not safe to go to the toilet

Residents of Kliprand informal settlement have opted for the bucket system because gangs target people using communal toilets at night

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News | 24 February 2020

Vandals make drought worse in Graaff-Reinet

Taps ran dry last year for thousands of residents in drought-stricken town

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News | 24 February 2020

Violent protests in PE over failure to relocate shack dwellers

“The residents have been flooded with empty promises by human settlements officials” says ward councillor

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News | 21 February 2020

Failing pump floods Addo street with sewage

“Our municipality does not care about its residents”

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Brief | 20 February 2020

Cofimvaba protesters tell their mayor to start working

“Once they climb the ladder, they forget about us”

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Brief | 19 February 2020

Uitenhage students close down college, demanding NSFAS allowances

Principal promises allowances will be paid in three to four days

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Brief | 19 February 2020

Mounting pressure on families living at PE school to relocate

Principal says occupation is a threat to the survival of his school

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News | 19 February 2020

Angry Butterworth protesters send mayor away

Residents ask Premier to drink borehole water, but he refuses

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News | 19 February 2020

Buffalo City College students boycott classes over unpaid NSFAS allowances

Student leaders say students are being evicted because they cannot pay rent

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News | 19 February 2020

Strike by Emergency Medical Services ends after four days

EMS employees in Graaff-Reinet went on strike last week Tuesday

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Brief | 18 February 2020

Uitenhage residents want their pothole left alone

Land occupiers use water from the pothole for bathing and boil it for cooking

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News | 18 February 2020