Articles by Thamsanqa Mbovane

SASSA’s Uitenhage office only serves 50 people a day. This is what it looked like at 1:30pm

Shack dwellers disrupt water and electricity project in Uitenhage

The two projects are meant to benefit elderly, disabled and blind residents whose 500 informal structures are being built in the area

The weeds are growing waist-high on Eastern Cape train stations

Toilets, basins, light bulbs, doors have been stolen

Blind pensioner left in the rain without answers outside SASSA office

SASSA says her old age grant will be paid in February

In the midst of water restrictions, clean water gushes out of taps in Uitenhage

But the municipality says it is “winning the war against leaks”

Streets in central Uitenhage pile up with garbage for months

Nelson Mandela Development Agency says awarding a cleaning contract has been held up by a bidder’s objection

Covid-19: long queues are spreading the disease, warn health officials

But SASSA beneficiaries still have to queue for hours

Uitenhage protesters block roads, demanding toilets and electricity

Residents to meet with the municipality over their grievances on Tuesday

Doctor accused of ramming car into protesting healthcare workers outside clinic

The protesters supported by NEHAWU and TAC are calling for higher wages

Childcarers paid at last by Social Development

Many early childhood development centres have been starved of funds since March

Shack dwellers want a share of toilet building tender

“Nothing about shack dwellers without involving shack dwellers” says member of new business forum

Land occupiers tear down ‘unoccupied’ shacks in overcrowded township

Community leader says the group will have to answer for their actions at an upcoming mass meeting

“You looted R5 billion and told us to dance to Jerusalema” say striking workers

Union members down tools countrywide over corruption and salary increases among other things on Wednesday

Child carers plead for help from Social Development

Many in Port Elizabeth have not recieved a salary since March

Police rescue man from vigilante justice in Uitenhage

Bobani Village residents destroyed a suspect thief’s shack and banished him from the informal settlement

Learners are only attending this Uitenhage school once a week

Physical distancing impossible in current building, and department says construction on a new school can only be completed next year