UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE ‘We just want a tar road’ - Eastern Cape’s Elliotdale residents express their plight in protest 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
JOY AFTER DISASTER Flooded Coffee Bay school improves pass rate — despite river washing away matric classrooms 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
TOWN UNDER FIRE Port St Johns on knife’s edge amid bid to broker peace between warring taxi associations 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
RITE OF PASSAGE Eastern Cape summer initiation season ends with 34 deaths 4 min 1 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
SOCIAL (IN)SECURITY Parents desperate after Sassa suspends 150,000 child support grants 8 min 1 By Lerato Mutsila, Tamsin Metelerkamp, Naledi Sikhakhane, Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
HUNGER CRISIS FOOD FUND Relief for desperate families as your generous donations bring hope to poverty-stricken Lusikisiki 4 min 4 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
IMMEDIATE DANGER Unicef warns over 45 million children starving in sub-Saharan Africa climate change crisis 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
HUNGER CRISIS Desperate Eastern Cape grandmothers walk up to 5km to scrounge for leftover food at traditional ceremonies 3 min 11 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
INITIATION HORROR Four brothers shot, three killed in shooting at initiation school near Butterworth 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
QUARRY DROWNINGS Two Eastern Cape children drown in abandoned quarries in less than a year 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
AFTER THE FLOOD Repairs to flood-damaged road near Port St Johns halted amid fiery jobs dispute 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
SERVICE NON-DELIVERY ‘Children are dying’: Eastern Cape community pleads for almost a decade for speed humps outside school 6 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
RWC 2023 ‘The Springboks reignited our dreams’ — East London fans weep with joy as trophy tour bus rolls into town 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
LITANY OF COMPLAINTS Service delivery collapse: ‘Gatvol’ Eastern Cape resident reports provincial-wide failures 5 min 4 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
WATER CRISIS R20bn or 20 years: What a single rural Eastern Cape municipality needs to provide water to residents 4 min 3 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
EXTREME WEATHER Three people die, three missing after Eastern Cape lashed by torrential rain 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
WEATHER WARNING Port St Johns residents on high alert after heavy downpours stoke fresh fears of severe flooding 3 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
IMIBIZO ‘SNUB’ Angry AmaMpondomise King cancels crime summit after E Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane no-show 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
PAYOUT PAIN Postbank insists Mthatha social grant payments went smoothly, despite pensioners’ complaints of delays 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
PAYOUT PAIN Post Office branches in Eastern Cape and KZN run low on cash for Sassa grants 6 min 3 By Estelle Ellis, Hoseya Jubase, Tamsin Metelerkamp, Takudzwa Pongweni, Lerato Mutsila and Jim Mohlala
COST OF POVERTY CRISIS Surviving child of Lusikisiki family murder cries for her mother at emotional funeral this week 4 min 4 By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase
