No water, no tarred roads, no clinic, no schools: the forgotten community of eGoqweni

Residents haven’t seen their ward councillor since 2014

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News | 27 July 2016

Homeless in city ask society to change its ways

Nearly 300 “street people” have put their names to a list of demands

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News | 27 July 2016

Foreign shops looted in Mbekweni

Residents burn and loot shops after meeting fails to resolve land issue

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News | 26 July 2016

Two years later, still no action on police assault

Witnesses yet to be interviewed

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News | 26 July 2016

98-year-old can’t find room in an old age home

Man born in the same year as Nelson Mandela can't afford the fee

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News | 26 July 2016

Community celebrates as iron mine plan shelved

Mining is a massive eviction project, not development, says activist

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Opinion | 26 July 2016

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

Condoms in schools: it’s a human right

If we are to curb high rates of HIV infections and pregnancy in schools, condoms must be accessible

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Opinion | 25 July 2016

Angry parents close primary school

Far too few teachers for number of students

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News | 25 July 2016

Woman who can’t evict people from her home faces eviction

Double-edge of high bar for eviction

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News | 25 July 2016

State offices instead of housing for the poor

Proceeds from contentious sale of Tafelberg School will be used to fund provincial offices, not social projects

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News | 24 July 2016

UCT stops controversial Danish editor from delivering academic freedom lecture

Flemming Rose, who published Prophet Mohammed cartoons, was invited to deliver the annual TB Davie Memorial lecture

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News | 22 July 2016

We have penises! We have vaginas!

Picket draws attention to HIV positive people living with disability

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News | 22 July 2016

Radio debate on Lonmin deal shut down

Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Council members force community radio station in Brits to cancel a live interview with critics of its Lonmin deal

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News | 22 July 2016

Abuse of sex workers by police rife

Women’s Legal Centre details hundreds of cases of rape, assault, harassment and unlawful arrest

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News | 22 July 2016

Fifty to a toilet in Pietermaritzburg

Resident says she’s been voting since 1994, but it has brought her nothing

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News | 22 July 2016