South Africa

Human rights commission proposes once-off fuel levy to fix horrific Eastern Cape roads

By Estelle Ellis

South Africa

Eight years and counting – raw sewage pouring continuously into Butterworth river

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp

Maverick News

Butterworth’s crumbling apartheid-era flats are ‘a ticking time bomb’ amid fight over rent

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp

South Africa

Families evicted in 2011 to make way for mall still waiting for promised homes

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp

South Africa

Four brothers shot, three killed in shooting at initiation school near Butterworth

By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase

South Africa

EC children endure near-constant hunger as National School Nutrition Programme dishes meagre portions

By Sonia A Rao and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

South Africa

Gift of the Givers starts food programme in Butterworth village where desperate mom killed herself and her children

By Estelle Ellis

South Africa

Butterworth mom desperately cried for help before family murders, suicide - Social Development MEC

By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase

South Africa

Desperate Eastern Cape mom kills starving children and hangs herself

By Estelle Ellis and Hoseya Jubase

South Africa

EC municipality provided one tap for 1,000 desperate families — and it’s been dry for seven years

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp

South Africa

Butterworth matrics to rewrite Life Orientation paper after assessment bungle

By Hoseya Jubase

South Africa

Seven children starve to death, others fight for their lives while malnutrition ravages Eastern Cape

By Estelle Ellis