Protesters uproot electricity poles because they are not connected
The Nomakanjani informal settlement community in Gqeberha has been blocking Addo Road for four days over a lack of electricity
Brief | 22 July 2022
Teachers and learners at this school use a field as a toilet
Fort Beaufort school has 570 learners and 15 teachers and toilets don’t work
Brief | 21 July 2022
Gqeberha’s secret salt harvesters
People who lost their jobs during Covid pandemic turn to abandoned salt pans
News | 20 July 2022
Gqeberha mother wants to leave the settlement where her son drowned
Residents of Waterville want to be moved from the abandoned salt pans where they live
Brief | 19 July 2022
Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted
“I can’t hail Mandela Day when my children don’t have a future,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 19 July 2022
One 5,000-litre water tank for 5,000 people in Nelson Mandela Bay
“I am not the government!” RDP homeowner tells community desperate for water from his tap
Brief | 15 July 2022
Police foil taxi protest over price of fuel
But a shutdown by taxis over fuel hikes may still happen
Brief | 14 July 2022
“Our children play in fields full of poop and pee” says protester
Hundreds of Bayland informal settlement residents block roads in Gqeberha over electricity and basic services
Brief | 14 July 2022
Learners protest against “drastic and unacceptable” changes to school infrastructure law
Equal Education members demand Eastern Cape education MEC intervene
Brief | 14 July 2022