South Africa|Eastern Cape|Gqeberha

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NMMU students picket at court in support of arrested protesters

They demand free education

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News | 22 September 2016

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Top PE school stripped bare by thieves

Police fail to make any arrests despite numerous incidents

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News | 22 September 2016

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Rubbish piling up in Nelson Mandela Bay

Municipal workers have been on strike all week

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News | 15 September 2016

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Growing success of school vegetable garden

Port Elizabeth school garden has turned into a flourishing business

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News | 7 September 2016

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Shaudeville residents march against drugs and gangsters

They accuse police and courts of being too lenient on criminals

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News | 29 August 2016

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Workers on strike at another PE drug company

Fresenius Kabi employees down tools

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Brief | 26 August 2016

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Zimbabweans march through PE demanding that Mugabe must go

More protests like this needed, says #Tajamuka spokesperson

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News | 22 August 2016

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Immigrant shop owners in PE township fed up with police

Perpetrators of xenophobic violence seldom arrested, they complain

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News | 19 August 2016

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BASF workers on strike because of dispute over back pay

Workers say that they are owed money for first half of 2016

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News | 12 August 2016

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Aspen workers on strike across Eastern Cape

Employees want 10% versus company offer of 7%

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Brief | 4 August 2016

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Residents in Motherwell left without a clinic

RDP house claimed by its owner

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Brief | 1 August 2016

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Port Elizabeth’s ward 26: an ANC divided

While the ruling party is unlikely to lose this ward on Wednesday, it showcases its problems in the city

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Feature | 30 July 2016

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A look at Port Elizabeth’s most closely contested ward

Ward 38's community lives on the edge of a wasteland

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Feature | 25 July 2016

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Angry parents close primary school

Far too few teachers for number of students

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News | 25 July 2016

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Zimbabwean told Road Accident Fund doesn’t help foreigners

But the Fund says its employees are meant to treat everyone equally

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News | 14 July 2016

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Residents of Qunu informal settlement protest on margin of ANC rally

“I have seven years of moving around Port Elizabeth as a squatter"

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News | 13 July 2016