“When you return to class the smell of the poo remains in your clothes”
Pit latrines are a daily hazard in Eastern Cape schools
News | 18 February 2022
Public schools shut down in Makhanda due to bungled payroll
School governing bodies say the education department failed to deliver stationery and did not pay teaching assistants
Brief | 16 February 2022
Makana municipality faces more court action over filth
Legal Resources Centre says municipality has failed to comply with September court order on waste management
Brief | 16 February 2022
Protests halt first day of university lectures
Problems with NSFAS leave Nelson Mandela University students unable to register
News | 15 February 2022
Hundreds of learners’ schooling affected by a bad bridge
“Our municipality comes and pretends to be maintaining our roads” says Eastern Cape villager
News | 15 February 2022
School’s dream dashed as donor fails to pay up
Rashid Khan promised tens of millions of rands to an Eastern Cape school but both he and the government have let the community down
By Mkhuseli Sizani and Tania Broughton
News | 14 February 2022
Broke municipality can’t provide basic services but it pays managers massive travel allowances
Amahlathi Local Municipality has a history of financial mismanagement
By Steve Kretzmann and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Feature | 11 February 2022
Bungled payroll leaves education assistants unpaid for two months in Eastern Cape
Audit underway to determine which of the province’s 40,000 education assistants were paid
News | 10 February 2022
The “Friendly City” is filthy
Only 11 of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s 36 refuse trucks are operational
Brief | 9 February 2022