ROADS TO HELL Human rights commission proposes once-off fuel levy to fix horrific Eastern Cape roads 6 min 21 By Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP Eight years and counting – raw sewage pouring continuously into Butterworth river 3 min 1 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
GROUNDUP Butterworth’s crumbling apartheid-era flats are ‘a ticking time bomb’ amid fight over rent 4 min 2 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
HOUSING CRISIS Families evicted in 2011 to make way for mall still waiting for promised homes 5 min 0 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
INITIATION HORROR Four brothers shot, three killed in shooting at initiation school near Butterworth 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
GROUNDUP EC children endure near-constant hunger as National School Nutrition Programme dishes meagre portions 4 min 0 By Sonia A Rao and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS Gift of the Givers starts food programme in Butterworth village where desperate mom killed herself and her children 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS Butterworth mom desperately cried for help before family murders, suicide - Social Development MEC 4 min 3 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
COST OF LIVING CRISIS Desperate Eastern Cape mom kills starving children and hangs herself 5 min 14 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
GROUNDUP EC municipality provided one tap for 1,000 desperate families — and it’s been dry for seven years 3 min 1 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
CLASS OF 2022 Butterworth matrics to rewrite Life Orientation paper after assessment bungle 4 min 0 By Hoseya Jubase
HUNGER Seven children starve to death, others fight for their lives while malnutrition ravages Eastern Cape 4 min 9 By Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP Promises, promises: Butterworth residents still waiting for housing after more than a decade 2 min 2 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
OUR BURNING PLANET More delays in bringing Eastern Cape project online to provide desperately needed water to villages 3 min 1 By Tembile Sgqolana
MAVERICK CITIZEN Families struggle to identify loved ones after Eastern Cape horror bus crash 4 min 1 By Hoseya Jubase & Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP Mud school has only one broken toilet shared between 175 learners and staff 3 min 1 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
Maverick Citizen Eastern Cape Death threats, protests and rubber bullets as Butterworth residents struggle for water 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
Maverick Citizen Eastern Cape Water woes continue for parched communities – despite emergency plan 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
MAVERICK CITIZEN Eastern Cape bus disaster: ‘Grant day a painful reminder of those we lost’ 8 min 0 By Siyamthanda Capa
OP-ED This drought is driven by the climate crisis, not just bad weather 4 min 0 By Siyabulela Manona
