Municipal workers threaten to intensify protests

Expanded Public Works Programme workers want permanent jobs

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News | 3 November 2020

Hard life for Fairview’s horse grooms

They want the government to provide services to their informal settlement but it’s on private land. Nevertheless there is hope that a pending land transfer will change things

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News | 3 November 2020

Councillor summons municipal officials to respond to shackdwellers’ complaints

“Shack” is a glorified name for a dog kennel, says councillor

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News | 28 October 2020

Childcarers paid at last by Social Development

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

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Brief | 21 October 2020

Port Elizabeth family lose “breadwinner” in taxi shooting

The incident sparked violence in the communities of Booysens Park and Marikana

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News | 21 October 2020

PE horse grooms’ hearing delayed by seven days

CCMA to make a decision on a technical point of law to be argued in the case

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Brief | 16 October 2020

Residents call on Cele to act after homes in Port Elizabeth petrol-bombed

Community says police minister has not kept his promise to tackle gangs

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News | 15 October 2020

Water outage stops SASSA office processing grants

Social grant beneficiaries were turned away from the Zwide office in PE on Tuesday due to a burst pipe

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Brief | 14 October 2020

Grooms and stable owners head to CCMA

The struggling racing industry is beset with labour conflict

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News | 14 October 2020

Child carers plead for help from Social Development

Many in Port Elizabeth have not recieved a salary since March

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Brief | 7 October 2020

Protests erupt over slow relocation of PE shack dwellers

Vehicles stoned and roads closed by Vastrap, Qunu and Jaagvlakte informal settlement residents

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News | 2 October 2020

Shacks demolished in PE … by shack dwellers!

Anger erupts after some residents blamed for delays in electrification in Kanana

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News | 30 September 2020

PE Day Zero: Staff and inmates at St Albans prison scramble for water

Large water tanks are emptied in a matter of hours, says community leader

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News | 28 September 2020

No shack, no vote, says Port Elizabeth mother after 20 homes demolished

20 shacks demolished by municipality

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News | 23 September 2020

Stop making patients wait outside, TAC tells clinics

Patient describes how they fear nurses

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News | 21 September 2020

Woman who sold municipal water told to leave her shack

Property owner outraged that his tenant took advantage of water shortages in Port Elizabeth

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Brief | 21 September 2020