South Africa|Eastern Cape

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Municipality spurns Addo residents’ call for upgrades

There are no public toilets and the roads are ridden with potholes

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News | 15 December 2017

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Rhodes criticised for expelling “rape culture” protesters

University has banned two female students for life following protests in 2016

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News | 14 December 2017

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Historical land battle decided in Constitutional Court

Xhosa community wins right to land, but settler descendants will not lose everything

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Law | 14 December 2017

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The tragedy facing mentally ill people in South Africa

Khululabantu Bam story brings home desperate need for better care

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News | 11 December 2017

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Health Department moves mentally challenged patients without families’ permission

Families not told where patients moved to

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News | 8 December 2017

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Waiting by the roadside desperate for work

The official unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape has risen to over 32%

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News | 1 December 2017

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Blind students evicted from school

Training centre in Port Alfred shut because it can’t pay its rent

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Brief | 24 November 2017

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Trollip offers R25,000 reward to catch electricity and water saboteurs

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says supply to poor areas is being sabotaged on weekends

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Brief | 22 November 2017

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Butterworth’s R14-million public pool nears completion after nine years

But there is no water to fill it

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News | 21 November 2017

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Farm workers accuse police and farmers of working “hand in glove”

Dispute on Eastern Cape farm after video shows farmer pulling down family’s home extension.

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News | 21 November 2017

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Health department wants to close informal facility for destitute people

Khululabantu Bam centre in Butterworth described as “not appropriate” for mentally ill

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News | 20 November 2017

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Beacon Bay community takes protest to mayor

Showdown looms as residents demand timeframes but Xola Pakati refuses to give any.

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News | 17 November 2017

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Family of 8 live in one-room mud house

Disabled daughter doesn’t get her grant because of a birth certificate problem

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News | 11 November 2017

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Health care workers fight for recognition by department

“When I die, my children get nothing after so many years of working. I get nothing even when I retire; not even UIF”

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News | 10 November 2017

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Strike at not-for-profit farm

Employees have not been paid since May

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News | 9 November 2017

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65-year-old loses shack in flood

Thembinkosi Mvinjelwa has been waiting for a formal house for many years

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Brief | 9 November 2017