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Eastern Cape woman’s soup kitchen gives more than warm meals (opens the original)
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Nodumo Mashiyane makes warm meals for elderly residents and orphans in Ngqele village, Middledrift. Here she is with 78-year-old Thandekile Matha at his shack. He relies on Mashiyane’s soup kitchen, so he doesn’t have to take his chronic medication on an empty stomach. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik An unusual spate of robberies around Ngqele, Middledrift in the Eastern Cape led 62-year-old Nodumo Mashiyane to start a soup kitchen in her village. Mashiyane said she asked around and discovered t
This water project started 20 years ago. But taps are still dry (opens the original)
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Chief Mfanelo Mnatule says this tap installed in 2016 in Mntsholobeni village near Mthatha, Eastern Cape, has never seen water, and neither have the taps installed in 2009. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik A water scheme that began 20 years ago to supply thousands of households near Mthatha, Eastern Cape, is still unfinished. Residents of villages around Ngqeleni say that over the decades they have seen at least four contractors come and go. The Buthongweni Water Supply Scheme was meant to serve
In this town, old women have to relieve themselves in a field (opens the original)
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These pit toilets are broken and can no longer be used, say residents of Aloe-T. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik In Aloe-T informal settlement in Komani, Eastern Cape, elderly women have to relieve themselves in an open field in broad daylight. Aloe-T is one of the oldest settlements in Komani, dating back to 1997. Residents say they were moved there to make way for an RDP housing project. When the houses were eventually built, they say, they were excluded from the beneficiary list. Several pit
South African jobs at stake as March and March close immigrant shops in Mdantsane (opens the original)
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March and March members camp outside the Highway shopping centre in Mdantsane. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik South Africans employed by immigrant shop owners in Mdantsane, KuGompo City, fear for the future of their jobs after protests by March and March closed down several salons, hardware stores and food outlets in Highway shopping centre. March and March members have warned immigrant shop owners to close their shops and leave the country. Dozens of members of the organisation camped outside
Sewer project leaves Flagstaff without a new school (opens the original)
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The Flagstaff Bulk Sewer Project will provide modern wastewater treatment services to Flagstaff and parts of Thabo Mbeki township. But residents are upset because they wanted the site to be used for the construction of a new school. Photo: Yamkela Ntshongwana Residents of Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape say they were fooled into agreeing to a multimillion-rand sewerage plant next to a site earmarked for a new high school. Residents say they supported the sewage project after government officials a
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