Tensions between communities reach “boiling point” over electricity in Port Elizabeth

Mayor Bobani promises electrification of informal settlements and removal of all illegal connections

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Brief | 22 August 2019

“Our area is over 120 years old but still we have no electricity, houses, and roads”

PE residents barricade roads because of housing delivery failures

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Brief | 21 August 2019

College students protest against 80% attendance policy

Students claim that late payments of NSFAS allowances caused them to miss classes

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Eastern Cape village fights for its school

Children and teachers learn at the risk of the ceiling falling on them

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Mdantsane community divided over suspended ward councillor

Residents say the ANC is failing both sides by not acting

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Endlovini residents demand to know why electrification of their shacks stopped

About 50 people demonstrated outside Port Elizabeth city hall demanding electricity, toilets and water

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Brief | 20 August 2019

Mom loses court case but scores a bigger victory for Eastern Cape patients

Supreme Court of Appeal has called on health minister Zweli Mkhize to “urgently address” the dire situation at government hospitals in the Eastern Cape

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Law | 16 August 2019

South African players on international draughts stage

Landikhaya Makeleni of KwaNobuhle hopes to challenge world champion Lubabalo Kondlo of New Brighton

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Brief | 16 August 2019

Prayer meeting held for shot teenager

Sinazo Kleinbooi, 14, was shot and killed on her way home from school

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Brief | 15 August 2019

Eastern Cape villagers demand municipality fix their roads

Over 200 residents march to Intsika Yethu Municipality

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Brief | 15 August 2019

Grade R learners told to avoid the school toilets and use the field

Eastern Cape Education Department says Mangelengele Primary School is too small to invest in

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News | 15 August 2019

Day zero in Butterworth

Not drought but municipalities caused water crisis, say residents

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Brief | 14 August 2019

Drought and strike leave taps dry in Butterworth

Protesting residents block N2 demanding water tankers

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Brief | 12 August 2019

Land occupiers say they paid R150,000 for plots, but where is the money?

Hundreds of people from Endlovini informal settlement in Port Elizabeth demand answers from ward committee

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Brief | 8 August 2019

“No one was going to believe me” says rape survivior

Eastern Cape women struggle with prosecution of rapists

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News | 8 August 2019

Spike in vigilante killings in Port Elizabeth

Police say communities resist investigations

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Brief | 7 August 2019