GroundUp: 2021 Local Government Elections Cofimvaba residents protest poor service delivery and property destruction by Intsika Yethu Municipality 4 min 0 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
MUNICIPAL EVICTIONS EC shack dwellers call on Human Rights Commission to probe their post-apartheid forced removal 5 min 1 By Mkhuseli Sizani and Hoseya Jubase
GROUNDUP Stinking, broken, overflowing: These are the pit latrines Eastern Cape learners are expected to use at school 4 min 0 By Mkhuseli Sizani for GroundUp
COVID-19 Right to Care vaccination team on a mission to get to far-flung places in the Eastern Cape 6 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
OP-ED: FOURTH WAVE LIKELY Vooma vaccinations: The race to beat the fourth wave of Covid-19 and avert 20,000 to 30,000 deaths 6 min 0 By David Harrison
GROUND LEVEL REPORT Municipal governance: Eastern Cape mayor sets her sights on a record seven clean audits in a row 6 min 6 By Estelle Ellis
OUR BURNING PLANET The burning season: Wildfires sweeping across South Africa and Namibia have left devastation in their wake 7 min 1 By Tembile Sgqolana
BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM Getting Covid vaccines to SA’s rural communities isn’t easy, but there are solutions 9 min 0 By Aisha Abdool Karim and Joan van Dyk
ROAD TO 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS Ground Level Report: Chris Hani Municipality's rivers of sewage flow freely after years of incompetence and neglect 9 min 11 By Estelle Ellis
MAVERICK CITIZEN There are no vaccinated patients in intensive care units in Eastern Cape hospitals – but men still reluctant to get the jab 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
MAVERICK CITIZEN Ritshidze Report: Public healthcare in the Eastern Cape has deteriorated significantly since outbreak of Covid-19 8 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
Maverick Citizen: Vaccines No jab, no jiggy: Eastern Cape MEC suggests women should deny sex to unvaccinated partners as province hits inoculation milestone 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
OUR BURNING PLANET OP-ED We can help alleviate the Eastern Cape’s ‘Day Zero’ water crisis by applying behavioural economics 4 min 0 By Syden Mishi
ROAD 2021 Local Elections Hung out to dry: Eastern Cape community without water for almost half a decade asks the court to force municipality to help 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
OUR BURNING PLANET Keeping it in the family: Outrage after Eastern Cape municipality resolves to sell land to councillors and officials only 4 min 19 By Tembile Sgqolana
OUR BURNING PLANET Sparks fly at meeting with rural community over proposed N2 Wild Coast toll road 7 min 24 By Lungi Langa
MAVERICK CITIZEN Inquiry opened into transportation of 106 corpses to Eastern Cape after Western Cape crematoriums overwhelmed 2 min 1 By Vincent Cruywagen
OUR BURNING PLANET Wide open spaces: Eastern Cape landowners near the Lesotho border stand to benefit if plans for a new national park are realised 5 min 1 By Tembile Sgqolana
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED Transparency and action urgently needed to tackle Eastern Cape hospital staffing challenges 5 min 0 By Sibusisiwe Ndlela
DM168 CLIMATE CRISIS Eastern Cape ravaged by double disaster of drought and poor municipal administration 17 min 2 By Estelle Ellis and Tembile Sgqolana
MAVERICK CITIZEN HEALTH Eastern Cape’s Livingstone Hospital overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases — again 7 min 0 By Estelle Ellis