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