PE families live with burst sewer pipe for three years

Municipality fails to keep promises

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News | 28 March 2017

School books and uniforms taken by sheriff in shack demolition

“It is becoming difficult to explain our situation to school teachers because this is the third time,” says 15-year-old

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News | 27 March 2017

School children sent home to use toilets during school hours

Bathrooms stripped bare by thieves

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News | 23 March 2017

“Home Affairs said I was a foreigner because of my vaccination marks”

PE woman claims she was turned away; Home Affairs denies this

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News | 8 March 2017

Grandma under siege by garbage

80-year-old endures ten years of unbearable smells, flies and rubbish

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News | 27 February 2017

Residents have to stay in shacks after state fails to pay contractors

Standoff between Housing Development Agency, Department of Human Settlements and contractors leaves Chatty residents with unfinished homes

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News | 24 February 2017

Spar protester appears in court

Community turns out in numbers to offer support

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Brief | 23 February 2017

Police fire rubber bullets at Spar protesters

Residents say retailer has fenced off pathway to taxi rank

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Brief | 20 February 2017

Qunu residents desperate to relocate

Informal settlement has no services and a road will soon be built through it

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News | 17 February 2017

New creche for PE informal settlements

Residents relieved that they do not have to travel far to drop off children

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Brief | 6 February 2017

PE municipality clears hazardous rubbish dumps

Garbage in Motherwell removed following GroundUp report

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Brief | 3 February 2017

Rubbish uncollected in Port Elizabeth township

“It has never been bad like this” says Motherwell resident

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News | 20 January 2017

School in resort town starts 2017 in crisis

Shortage of teachers, textbooks and classrooms in Jeffreys Bay school

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News | 16 January 2017

“Locals are in love with spinach” says gardener

Zimbabwean widow grows hard to access fresh vegetables in PE

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News | 20 December 2016

Port Elizabethans express their views on Khoi-San bill

Final public hearing will be in Kimberley in March

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News | 13 December 2016

Paralysed man gets his medication

Compensation Fund apologises

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Brief | 5 December 2016