Prisoners accuse government of parole delays
While Correctional Services denies there is a backlog, the Judicial Inspectorate says there is a problem
News | 26 August 2021
Crucial services lost because of library vandals
Several libraries in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro were unable to reopen in August even for a limited service
Brief | 25 August 2021
Couple living with disability left homeless by fire
Yoliswa Maneli and Andisile January want to be allocated one of the many unoccupied houses in the area
Brief | 24 August 2021
People flock to Nelson Mandela Bay’s pop-up vaccine sites
“I can proudly say that all of us in the family of four have taken the vaccine,” says Gqeberha resident
Brief | 23 August 2021
Gqeberha shack dwellers block road, stone cars in protest over electricity and sanitation
700 households share three taps and three toilets
News | 18 August 2021
Elderly people in rural Makana struggle to get to vaccine sites
People are paying R60 for transport to Covid vaccination sites in Makhanda, and that’s just for the first jab
News | 18 August 2021
Eastern Cape communities want “death trap” road fixed
The provincial department of transport has allocated R1.5 million for repairs but admits it is not enough to rehabilitate the R58 road
Brief | 17 August 2021
Addo awash in raw sewage for months
Municipality says it must upgrade sewer pump station to a water treatment works
News | 16 August 2021
Eastern Cape village without water since 2019
A pensioner says she has to use the little money she has to pay youths to collect water from a neighbouring community
Brief | 12 August 2021