WHEELS COME OFF Makana on its knees as water and sewage services all but collapse amid broken equipment crisis 6 min 64 By Estelle Ellis
MUNICIPAL DYSFUNCTION SIU launches comprehensive investigation into Makana municipality's five-year service delivery crisis 7 min 11 By Estelle Ellis
RUNNING ON EMPTY Rhodes University suspends lectures as Makhanda despairs over prolonged water outage caused by sabotage 6 min 5 By Estelle Ellis
LIFE STAGES Blessings and kombucha — why Rob van Vuuren is everyone’s National Arts Festival Bae 7 min 1 By Keith Bain
50 YEARS AND COUNTING National Arts Festival’s eclectic 2024 programme draws from the past in looking towards the future 4 min 0 By Unknown Author
ALIVE AND STOMPING The National Arts Festival — still pure gold after 50 brilliant years 7 min 2 By Marianne Thamm
GROUNDUP National Arts Festival battles to get much-needed Lottery funding 3 min 0 By Steve Kretzmann
DARK SECRETS OP-ED Abuse and suicide, the spectre that haunts elite boys’ schools: St Andrew’s College (Part Three) 13 min 1 By Robyn Wolfson Vorster
STUNTED GROWTH OP-ED Dysfunctional South African municipalities are killing small businesses 6 min 0 By Richard Morrow and Rutendo Nyaku
MUNICIPAL FINANCES Reprieve for Makana municipality after Eastern Cape treasury claws back half of unspent grants 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
PUTTING UBUNTU BACK IN EDUCATION Rhodes University VC wants to transform Makhanda into a world-class education hub 4 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE Makhanda faces new water crisis after Howieson’s Poort pump damaged 4 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
LEGAL ACTION Eastern Cape schools head to court after education department slashes next year’s budget 4 min 4 By Estelle Ellis
ART OF LEARNING From the class to the stage - Making a song and dance about maths and science 3 min 0 By Bukamuso Sebata
GROUNDUP Social grant payment ‘glitch’ sees desperate elderly recipients forced to take loans to survive 5 min 0 By Daniel Steyn, Ella Morrison, Loyiso Dyongman, Tsoanelo Sefoloko and Thamsanqa Mbovane
REFLECTION Still kicking — the beating hearts, drums interwoven with trauma and intimacy at the 2023 National Arts Festival 9 min 4 By Anton Krueger
PHOTO ESSAY All their world’s a stage – visually impaired youngsters take message of inclusivity to National Arts Festival 4 min 0 By Alet Pretorius
MAKHANDA WATER CRISIS Makana mayor confident there will be water, as National Arts Festival kicks off 2 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
HEALTH HAZARD Boil-before-drinking notice remains for Makhanda’s contaminated water 7 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP Makhanda schools battle to contend with literacy crisis against backdrop of failed national reading plan 6 min 0 By Liezl Human and Daneel Knoetze Liezl Human and Daneel Knoetze
GROUNDUP Eastern Cape schools to finally receive missing R872.5-million in learner subsidies from education department 4 min 0 By Rod Amner
