Articles for Joseph Chirume

Addo residents sick of sewage spills

Municipality says system is ageing and blocked

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News | 15 February 2018

Afrikaans-speaking parents threaten to close school

Students are failing because there is no teacher to teach their mother tongue

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News | 12 February 2018

It’s business as usual for some in drought-stricken Kouga

Residents say they are used to the taps running dry, but how long will Day Zero last?

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News | 5 February 2018

Drought: Eastern Cape towns facing Day Zero

Dam levels in the Gamtoos Valley critically low

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News | 31 January 2018

Broken Motherwell drains fixed at last

Municipality sends a team after GroundUp story

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Brief | 29 January 2018

Another child drowns in Addo’s killer canal

Children say they have nowhere else to play

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News | 18 January 2018

Motherwell creche burns down

Children left stranded at start of New Year

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News | 10 January 2018

Sewage spill spoils children’s holidays

PE residents have been complaining to the municipality for months

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News | 9 January 2018

Municipality spurns Addo residents’ call for upgrades

There are no public toilets and the roads are ridden with potholes

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News | 15 December 2017

Trollip offers R25,000 reward to catch electricity and water saboteurs

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says supply to poor areas is being sabotaged on weekends

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Brief | 22 November 2017

Farm workers accuse police and farmers of working “hand in glove”

Dispute on Eastern Cape farm after video shows farmer pulling down family’s home extension.

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News | 21 November 2017

Strike at not-for-profit farm

Employees have not been paid since May

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News | 9 November 2017

Weekend outages trigger protests in PE

Municipality blames service disruptions on sabotage by workers unhappy with new overtime policy

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Brief | 2 November 2017

PE crèche burns down

Under The Tree Early Childhood Centre provided free care and food for 60 children

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Brief | 31 October 2017

Doctors protest against armed robberies

Port Elizabeth doctors complain about spike in crime

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Brief | 30 October 2017

Coke on strike

Workers at beverage company enter second week of strike

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News | 26 October 2017