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Anna Majavu

Anna Majavu is a trade unionist and journalist currently completing a PhD in journalism

The annual competition gives learners an opportunity to work with the Constitution and questions of equality, freedom and dignity (John McCann/M&G)

Overworked Eastern Cape education assistants unpaid

Young people hired under the Presidential Youth Employment Initiative in the province are teaching classes without supervision and some have not been paid last months’ stipends

Lulamile Sidwaba photographed at his home in Pinelands. (Barry Christianson)

How Lulamile Sidwaba was manoeuvred off his farm

In this second feature on land restitution in Stutterheim, a farmer allocated land by the government loses it to a member of a prominent ANC family

Bakery workers in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape were left destitute after their employer, Zahid Desai, chased them from their workplace following a wage dispute. (Photographs by Sibongile Jonas)

Nowhere to turn for abused bakery workers

After being chased away for asking for minimum wage, Gqeberha bakers who endured racism turned first to the CCMA, then to a political party, then to a union. None helped

Nationalising the dairy company would save jobs and the Lichtenburg factory, Giwusa said. (Madelene Cronjé)

‘We sacrifice our families for Clover all year’

The strike at the dairy company continues, with exhausted workers demanding an end to compulsory weekend and public holiday work as well as overtime being forced on them

Activist Lungile Mxube is being sued by Eastern Cape member of the executive council for transport Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe, who claims he has defamed her in several Facebook posts. (Bonile Bam)

Eastern Cape MEC sues activist for defamation

“The province’s member of the executive council for transport Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe is suing a United Front activist for Facebook posts he made that she says paint her as…

ANC family tries to run black farmers off their land

The politically connected Nelani family is suspected of thwarting a couple’s decade-long attempt to formalise the lease for the state-owned land they have farmed productively for…

The town of Peddie and surrounding Eastern Cape villages have been without a regular supply of clean water for months, prompting a water strike next to the N2 highway. (Anna Majavu)

Police respond to rural water protests with bullets

The coronavirus has hit the Eastern Cape hard, but many rural areas in the province still have no clean water for hand washing, forcing residents to break lockdown regulations to…

Kowa has the highest rate of land
 restitution in the country. Black farmers now own 46% of formerly white commercial farms in the area.(Madelene Cronjé/M&G)

Land reform is about more than just land

On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives to pool their government subsidies…