13-year-old drowns on Makhanda construction site
Residents accuse municipality of negligence after Asanele Qomfo lost his life swimming in water from a damaged pipe
Brief | 28 September 2021
Nurses return to Willowvale clinic after two-month absence
This comes after years of erratic attendance and no nurses for the past two months
Brief | 23 September 2021
Activists urge Ramaphosa to move N2 Wild Coast Toll Road
The road will bring destruction to the Wild Coast, they say. But SA National Roads Agency disagrees
By Daniel Steyn
Feature | 22 September 2021
Duncan Village residents chase away government officials
Residents upset that officials were accompanied by people affiliated to the ward councillor who they say has neglected them
News | 22 September 2021
Pigeons are taking over classrooms at this crumbling Gqeberha school
Some classrooms in Arcadia Senior Secondary have no electricity, the roof leaks, and science and computer studies have been suspended because of vandalism
News | 21 September 2021
Banking glitch triggers health workers’ strike in Eastern Cape
Department of Health promises employees will get salary within hours
Brief | 17 September 2021
Desperate pensioners build their own clinic, but Eastern Cape health department can’t supply nurses
Department blames bad roads for failure to keep promise to send nurses
Feature | 16 September 2021
It took a court order, but municipality says it is cleaning up Makhanda at last
Makhanda’s by-laws and waste management system fail constitutional mandate, says judge
News | 15 September 2021
Gqeberha families have been housed on land polluted by methane gas, but municipality won’t explain what’s going on
Mayco member tells GroundUp reporter to “Google methane gas”
News | 15 September 2021