Meticulous Eastern Cape effort to keep vultures from extinction

Vultures disabled by powerline collisions are taken care of and given a place to breed

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News | 25 January 2024

Amatola Water misses deadline to fix Makhanda’s water woes yet again

Upgrades to water treatment works more than six years behind schedule. New deadline is April 2024.

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News | 24 January 2024

Education department blames transport department for scholar transport fiasco

Hundreds of learners are stuck at home and not in school

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Brief | 24 January 2024

13-year-old boy walks and hitchhikes for an hour to get to school every day

Farm school has no scholar transport for about 80 keen learners

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Brief | 23 January 2024

Eastern Cape families who were promised houses have been given … toilets

Municipality and province disagree about housing list

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News | 22 January 2024

Kariega clinic reopens after residents volunteer to act as security guards

Ten residents have volunteered to rotate guarding the clinic until the stolen fence is replaced

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Brief | 17 January 2024

Staff refuse to work at clinic after fence stolen

“We demand our safety as well as patients’ safety,” says nurse

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Brief | 12 January 2024

Eastern Cape traders shut down by municipality over festive season

More than 40 stalls and containers were demolished and removed from main road in Cacadu

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News | 10 January 2024

Children kayak in Kariega’s flooded streets

Local business owners scupper latest effort by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality to remove water

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Brief | 8 January 2024

It’s Christmas without water for hundreds of families in Kariega

Municipality blames water shortage on vandalism of pump station last March

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News | 22 December 2023

A woman was raped in 2010. It’s almost 2024 and her damages case is still in court

Andy Kawa is suing the police for millions of rands for negligence

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News | 14 December 2023

81-year-old Mthatha widow waiting two decades for her house

Ndenzeni Njwenene first applied in 1999

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News | 12 December 2023

Workers under Creecy’s “cleaning and greening” project demand unpaid wages

Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillor pens letter in support of workers’ demands

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Brief | 7 December 2023

The informal brick makers of Dordrecht

“We are only working to put food on the table, nothing else” says Tinashe Mandobe who has made bricks in the small Eastern Cape town since 2004

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News | 7 December 2023

Showdown looms between land occupiers and Eastern Cape municipality

Komani Protest Action interdicted from inciting “land grabbing” but vows to defy court order

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News | 1 December 2023

Clean our “stinking” canal, demand Moeggesukkel shack dwellers

Nelson Mandela Bay ward councillor promises they will get water by Christmas and electricity in January

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Brief | 29 November 2023