Women carry water buckets for kilometres, while water workers go unpaid
The CCMA this week awarded 143 Eastern Cape water operators R1.5 million for unpaid wages
News | 10 December 2021
45,000 commuters use four toilets at Mthatha taxi rank
Construction of a new rank has been halted since 2010
News | 8 December 2021
Filthy Mthatha is a pigsty, say residents
Council has just approved a Waste Management Turnaround Plan, says municipality
News | 6 December 2021
Gqeberha health workers march against management
They demanded the removal of the health district manager and for the health facilities to be refurbished
Brief | 3 December 2021
Qunu residents’ hopes dashed by failed government project
Government’s R8-million Integrated Energy Centre has not lived up to any of its promises
News | 2 December 2021
Protesters in Gqeberha threaten company for employing immigrants
#PutSouthAfricansFirst protesters accused of putting people’s lives in danger
News | 26 November 2021
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s hometown: no country for old women
Girls from the age of five and women into their 70s fetch water from a river in a town that has never had tap water
Feature | 25 November 2021
High school dropout rate blamed on water crisis in Eastern Cape village
The municipality says a R28 million water project will be completed in March next year
News | 24 November 2021
Eastern Cape women abandon vegetable gardens to collect scrap for cash
“Everything here in Qunu has collapsed after Madiba passed away”
News | 22 November 2021