NEWS
27 May 2020
“I can’t sit at home while my family is starving”
By Joseph Chirume
BRIEF
19 May 2020
“Residents spend time in long queues waiting to fetch water” says community leader
13 May 2020
Health department appeals to Eastern Cape clinic staff to return to work
8 May 2020
Emergency medical services and unions say personal protective equipment is in short supply
7 May 2020
Company has apparently applied for TERS funding but employees have not been paid this yet
Ward councillor says she didn’t know of the settlement
22 April 2020
Consul General says the embassy is compiling a list of people willing to return to Zimbabwe
19 April 2020
“We have suffered enough in the hall and now they want to finish us off here”
17 April 2020
“We can’t just let them go back to the streets like that” says social development MEC
16 April 2020
Desperate immigrants helped during lockdown
10 April 2020
Some PE residents angry over food parcel distribution to hawkers
6 April 2020
“The municipality should not wait to act when there are pandemics like [Covid-19] to provide residents with basic services” says PE resident
30 March 2020
Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants
By Joseph Chirume and Mkhuseli Sizani
National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality
24 March 2020
Residents say they have repeatedly reported the issue, but municipal workers never come
20 March 2020
Roads blocked and cars stoned
