Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Anna Majavu is a trade unionist and journalist currently completing a PhD in journalism.
Nelson Mandela Bay steel workers are fighting their dismissal and trying to find out what happened to their unemployment and pension fund contributions, which have gone missing.
The few days of rain have done little to alleviate drought in the Eastern Cape, leaving emerging farmers with starving livestock and withered crops as some wait for promised government aid.
For the first time in South Africa, a court has ordered the dissolution of a municipal council for failing in its constitutional duty to provide services to residents.
Palestinian-South African academic Haidar Eid speaks to New Frame about the day the United Nations said the densely populated Gaza Strip would officially become unsuitable for human habitation.
A successful land restitution project in the Eastern Cape is being hampered by government’s failure to provide basic services for the family working and living there.
Endulini citrus farm in the Eastern Cape is unwilling to hear the situation of some of its workers regarding adequate accommodation.
Angry residents and activists from the ‘disaster area’ of the Eastern Cape are pointing fingers at government mismanagement and misinformation concerning the water shortage.
Water supply in the Eastern Cape is precarious as the continuing drought compounds run-down municipal systems and the government’s failure to pre-empt the effects of climate change.
A group of concerned union members has accused the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie of malfeasance concerning its vehicle financing supplier and the possible misuse of its funds.
Volkswagen South Africa has turned to the courts to prevent former employees and the EFF from picketing at the Eastern Cape plant, demanding compensation for their dismissal 20 years ago.
A long-standing grievance between the lecturers’ union, management and the student representative council of Eastcape Midlands College in Makhanda has boiled over, disrupting exams.
Nelson Mandela University students are cutting their teeth creating a multiuse building for residents of the Airport Valley shack settlement.
The residents of the Eastern Cape town are taking all levels of government to court over the raw sewage that continues to flood the town and the municipality’s failure to respond to reported incidents.
Students from vocational colleges in the Eastern Cape are furious about late stipends, bad treatment by security on campus and outdated equipment.
Though they battle to find good grazing land and water, impoverished farmers on small plots of land will not be deterred by government’s failure to follow up with promises of support.
A lack of municipal grazing land for the livestock of township-based Eastern Cape farms results in them straying into streets, becoming impounded and incurring heavy costs for their owners.
Employees of the Expanded Public Works Programme have essentially become ‘permanent casuals’ who earn a pittance and have no job security or collective bargaining power.
Legal experts have questioned the interdict granted to a group of Eastern Cape farmers, saying it unjustifiably limits the farm workers’ constitutional right to speak out against alleged poor treatment.
The Sundays Valley farmers’ association has denied the accusations of abuse levelled by the local farm workers’ forum in the Eastern Cape, despite what workers say they have experienced.
Residents farming tracts of municipal land around Uitenhage are struggling with minimal equipment and water while the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality drags its feet on an urban agriculture policy that could help.
More than 10 years ago, rain destroyed the bridge over a ravine in KwaNobuhle. Since then, residents have been struggling through the water and mud in the gully, which is also a hangout for criminals.