Articles for Nompendulo Ngubane

Little improvement at Home Affairs office despite Malusi Gigaba’s promises

People arrive hours before opening time and still queue for hours after the Pietermaritzburg office opens

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Brief | 18 July 2018

KZN nurses call for health MEC to step down

“We are short staffed and overworked. This is the third march this year.”

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Brief | 17 July 2018

Social grant beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues

We feel their pain. Some of the issues raised will help them, says striker

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Brief | 13 July 2018

Housing protest in Pietermaritzburg leaves residents in the dark

Protesters burn electricity transformers and block roads in Copesville

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Brief | 11 July 2018

Hundreds flock to occupy municipal land in Pietermaritzburg

Msunduzi municipality says it has an interdict preventing anyone from building on the land which is earmarked for housing

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News | 10 July 2018

Post Office strike halts payment to grant beneficiaries

The workers say they have not received a wage hike in three years. They are demanding a 12% wage increase

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News | 9 July 2018

“I have no food at home” says grant recipient following Post Office glitch

Nearly 800,000 beneficiaries affected by payment problems

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News | 5 July 2018

“We are paid peanuts” says SASSA employee

Workers affiliated to the Public Servants’ Association have rejected SASSA’s 7% pay hike

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Brief | 3 July 2018

“All we want is justice and attention from the police” says Pietermaritzburg resident

About 50 residents and members of the SACP marched on Friday to demand better policing in townships

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Brief | 2 July 2018

Pietermaritzburg residents start cleaning blitz

Sobantu residents say the municipality has neglected the township

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News | 2 July 2018

“We are now visible” says albinism activist

People with albinism march in Durban

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News | 13 June 2018

Domestic worker attacked by employers’ dogs

Police refused to investigate, says victim’s brother

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News | 5 June 2018

Pietermaritzburg woman feeds up to 150 gogos out of her own pocket

“She is the reason behind our smile,” says 80-year-old Sizakele Ntuli

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News | 25 May 2018

Nurses call for Health MEC to be axed

KZN nurses say they are chronically short-staffed and underpaid

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Brief | 24 May 2018

Another Abahlali activist shot dead

S’fiso Ngcobo shot seven times at his home

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News | 23 May 2018

Ramaphosa visits home of gunned-down corruption-fighting councillor

ANC comrades accuse each other of KZN political murders

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News | 15 May 2018