AUDIT OUTCOMES More than quarter of SA’s municipalities are on brink of financial collapse, warns AG 3 min 5 By Suné Payne
0: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE Volunteers urgently needed to help save Nelson Mandela Bay from Day Zero water crisis 5 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
0: Countdown to Catastrophe Impofu Dam: This is what an Eastern Cape dam looks like after months of drought 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Deon Ferreira
#YOUTHRISING2022 Graduates pushing trolleys to survive – Mthatha youngsters make a plan as unemployment soars 3 min 0 By Hoseya Jubase
0: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE First major dam fails as Nelson Mandela Bay battles near certain water disaster 4 min 3 By Estelle Ellis
14: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE Business Chamber offers to help fix NMB water leaks spilling 80 million litres a day 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
SPIES R US Ramaphosa pleads innocence, says charges laid against him are politically motivated 3 min 20 By Queenin Masuabi
LIVINGSTONE HOSPITAL EC legislature orders provincial health dept to pay for orthopaedic implants to avert ‘humanitarian crisis’ 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
17: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE Minister in talks to take over Nelson Mandela Bay’s water department while DA moves to grab metro with new coalition 7 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
BITTER MEDICINE OP-ED Covid crisis could be the catalyst for a return to rural revolt in South Africa 5 min 0 By Leslie Bank
EASTERN CAPE Patients risk disability and death as orthopaedic services grind to halt over unpaid bills 4 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
ANALYSIS Chaos, decentralised – violent ANC provincial conferences may cost it national power in 2024 elections 5 min 9 By Stephen Grootes
21: COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE Plumbing teams’ midnight race to avert disaster in Nelson Mandela Bay 5 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
LOCKDOWN REPERCUSSIONS OP-ED Covid death rate in rural Eastern Cape far and away highest in South Africa 7 min 2 By Leslie Bank
GROUNDUP EDUCATION Eastern Cape schools in ‘worse state’ than almost a decade ago 10 min 0 By Mkhuseli Sizani and Mary-Anne Gontsana
LIFE ON THE EDGE Eastern Cape faces of hunger — one family’s struggle to survive 5 min 1 By Hoseya Jubase & Estelle Ellis
SPOTLIGHT Dire straits at E Cape’s All Saints Hospital as taps remain dry despite R57m allocation 5 min 0 By Siyabonga Kamnqa for Spotlight
GAS KAPITAL? Traditional leaders give Wild Coast seismic survey (and Mantashe) a king-size boost 4 min 5 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
EASTERN CAPE The intersection of gender and climate justice struggles in Xolobeni 3 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
SPOTLIGHT Rural patients forced to endure fallout of EMS strike in Eastern Cape 7 min 0 By Luvuyo Mehlwana for Spotlight
WAR IN EUROPE From a township hospital in South Africa to the Ukraine border, an expat doctor has seen the trauma of poverty and now war 8 min 0 By Micah Reddy and Anastasia Levkova