Waiting by the roadside desperate for work

The official unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape has risen to over 32%

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News | 1 December 2017

Beacon Bay community takes protest to mayor

Showdown looms as residents demand timeframes but Xola Pakati refuses to give any.

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News | 17 November 2017

65-year-old loses shack in flood

Thembinkosi Mvinjelwa has been waiting for a formal house for many years

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Brief | 9 November 2017

“We will die waiting for our houses”

Elderly shack dwellers in East London have been waiting for formal housing for 25 years

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News | 3 November 2017

“We want to create intolerance of violence”

Activists march against gender based violence in Buffalo City townships

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Brief | 3 November 2017

“All I want to know is who killed my son”

Father of young man murdered by vigilantes says police have done nothing

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News | 1 November 2017

We want to buy electricity, say East London residents

But the electricity transformer in Duncan Village burnt out three years ago

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News | 26 October 2017

Children with disability battle to find schools

“We have a serious crisis” says disability organisation

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News | 17 October 2017

Imbizo backfires on Buffalo City Mayor

Xola Pakati failed to respond to people’s grievances

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Brief | 13 October 2017

No toilets in Barcelona after 25 years

“We sleep with shit inside our shacks at night”

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Brief | 11 October 2017

Township boxing academy trains champions

Duncan Village gym operates from one room in an old building

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Feature | 6 October 2017

One pit toilet for 20 families

No protests in Masibulele for 10 years but residents are fed up

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News | 3 October 2017

64-year-old Duncan Village resident has to walk 1km to the toilet

“It is not the municipality who tells people to start the informal settlement; they do it at their own risk” says councillor

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News | 27 September 2017

Homeless and in a wheelchair at 63

Zolile Ncapayi was abandoned by his family ten years ago

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Brief | 23 September 2017

Promised RDP houses after six months: Nine years later they still waiting

“This is not a place I want my grandchildren to grow up in. I do not want to die here.”

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News | 21 September 2017

Fort Hare student protests continue as talks fail

Nursing students enter second month of protest action

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Brief | 12 September 2017