HeyJaredJoseph Chirume
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Asylum seekers protest in Gqeberha (opens the original)
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Hundreds of Ethiopian and Eritrean asylum seekers protested in Gqeberha on Wednesday. Photo: Joseph Chirume About 400 asylum seekers demonstrated outside the refugee reception office in Gqeberha on Wednesday, demanding that such offices reopen across the country. They cited a Constitutional Court judgment in July 2026 that asylum seekers may not be deported if they are undocumented because they have not been able to fully access the asylum system. Refugee reception offices have been effectively
Anger after farmers dump rotting fruit near homes (opens the original)
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Pigs feed on some lemons outside Ramaphosa Village in Patensie. Residents say farmers dumped the fruit, nets and other waste on land earmarked for a housing project. Photo: Joseph Chirume. Residents of Patensie in the Eastern Cape have accused farmers of dumping truckloads of oranges and lemons, as well as farm equipment on land near their homes. They say farmers “would never do this in their own suburbs”. The rotting fruit attracted insects, as well as pigs and cattle, and created a heavy stenc
Streets flooded with raw sewage for months in Motherwell (opens the original)
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Sewage pooling in Nkume Street, Gqeberha. Photos: Joseph Chirume For the past two months, Lindela Mzileni’s yard in Mnenga Street, Motherwell, has been flooded with raw sewage, and it is not for the first time. It has taken the municipality particularly long to fix the problem this time, Mzileni told GroundUp. Over the past decade, it has become increasingly common for raw sewage to flood streets and yards in the large township outside Gqeberha. We have been reporting on sewage spillages in the
Ploughing into debt: MPs probe farm worker equity schemes (opens the original)
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Members of Parliament’s Land Reform and Rural Development Committee visited beneficiaries of Luthando citrus farm in Kirkwood, Eastern Cape, as part of oversight hearings into alleged failures of farm worker equity share schemes. Photo: supplied. Members of various farm worker equity share schemes have complained that they are drowning in debt. This emerged during recent hearings hosted by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development and visits by MPs to Kirkwood and Han
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