Articles for Thamsanqa Mbovane

“Keep our women safe” demand primary school learners

School protests against gender-based violence

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Brief | 12 September 2019

Firefighters paint their faces black and blue

PE firefighters join the move against violence against women

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Brief | 10 September 2019

I can’t even let someone hold my kids on their lap, says rape survivor

Mother tells of successive rapes when she was a child

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Brief | 9 September 2019

Uitenhage taxi drivers join protests against crimes against women

“Not in our taxi rank, not in our taxis, not in our homes, and not in our names”

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Brief | 4 September 2019

Exams suspended at eight TVET campuses

Students and management accuse each other of failing to negotiate

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Brief | 2 September 2019

Police fire rubber bullets, teargas to disperse protesting students

Eastcape Midlands College suspends classes at Uitenhage campus

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Brief | 29 August 2019

Endlovini residents burn rubble at councillor’s office

Protesters demand toilets and electricity

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Brief | 26 August 2019

Small business owners shut down civil engineering project in Uitenhage

The group is demanding 30% of the value of an erosion control contract

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Brief | 23 August 2019

Unions march against crime in Motherwell

“Residents are only quick to blow whistles when they want to protest, but fail to blow the same whistle when they see criminals” says police colonel

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Brief | 22 August 2019

Residents say Peace Village is a “pigsty”

Raw sewage bubbles up in yards and runs in the streets of RDP housing project in Uitenhage

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Brief | 22 August 2019

College students protest against 80% attendance policy

Students claim that late payments of NSFAS allowances caused them to miss classes

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Brief | 21 August 2019

Endlovini residents demand to know why electrification of their shacks stopped

About 50 people demonstrated outside Port Elizabeth city hall demanding electricity, toilets and water

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Brief | 20 August 2019

South African players on international draughts stage

Landikhaya Makeleni of KwaNobuhle hopes to challenge world champion Lubabalo Kondlo of New Brighton

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Brief | 16 August 2019

Land occupiers say they paid R150,000 for plots, but where is the money?

Hundreds of people from Endlovini informal settlement in Port Elizabeth demand answers from ward committee

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Brief | 8 August 2019

Students protest at gates of college

“We have not had lessons since 11 July” says student

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Brief | 5 August 2019

Man set alight in scuffle over municipal tender

Small business owner Vuyani Zinto says a ward committee member poured petrol over him when he tried to stop a fencing and flooring project

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Brief | 26 July 2019