Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Fort Hare student protests continue as talks fail

Nursing students enter second month of protest action

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Brief | 12 September 2017

Blind Eastern Cape couple hope to go back to school

When I had my own eyes I had big dreams, says Port St Johns man

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News | 29 August 2017

Matatiele protesters demand roads and water

Roads closed with rocks and burning tyres

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News | 28 August 2017

Cofimvaba parents forced to find teacher for their children

Eastern Cape education department has failed us, say families

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News | 24 August 2017

Eastern Cape learners tackle MEC over lack of toilets at schools

“Our toilets are in no conditions to be used. They are dirty and there are no bins to throw our sanitary pads.”

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News | 11 August 2017

Mount Frere residents occupy unfinished RDP houses

Over 900 homes are yet to be completed three years after construction started

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News | 4 August 2017

Farmers in Eastern Cape village have to give their crops away

They have nowhere to sell their maize

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News | 28 July 2017

Rural Eastern Cape village left without clinic for months

Provincial government has no explanation why

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Brief | 25 July 2017

Official threatened me with old age home, says granny

75-year-old woman says she was told she would be sent to an institution if she did not shut up about her RDP house

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News | 19 July 2017

Municipality fails to fix public pool despite years of promises

It stands empty and overgrown in Mdantsane, a lost opportunity for the surrounding community

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News | 12 July 2017

Petition launched after damning report on Eastern Cape schools

“This looks like a place for cows, but we are humans studying under these conditions”

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News | 6 July 2017

With no English teacher, parents fear children will fail matric

Eastern Cape school has only two teachers to teach seven subjects to five grades of students

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Brief | 30 June 2017

No houses for residents relocated two years ago

And no answers from the municipality on Mdantsane’s abandoned housing project

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News | 26 June 2017

14 people live in a one-room shack

Mdantsane woman is trapped by debt

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News | 19 June 2017

State breaks promise to fix mud schools

“We lost hope that we will ever receive a better school from government”

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News | 7 June 2017