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You are at:Home»OUR TOWN»Civic»Township rubbish collection halts after vehicles torched Makana Mayor Mzukisi Mpahlwa and Ward 2 councillor Ramie Xonxa address residents at eNkanini informal settlement on Friday 9 April. Photo: Sue Maclennan Township rubbish collection halts after vehicles torched Makana Municipality has suspended refuse collection services in Makhanda’s township areas this week, after two municipal vehicles were set alight. The incidents occurred at times when service-delivery protests were under way. In the most recent incident, on Monday 12 April, a Makana employ...

Residents queue for waster in Nompondo Street on Sunday 21 February 2021. Photos: Sue Maclennan Gift of the Givers steps in again “I had 120 messages and 75 calls yesterday – really, my phone was going non-stop.” Gift of the Givers’ Pamela Kaptein is used to getting calls from desperate residents at all hours. “But this was just crazy,” she told GMDirect as she organised a queueing system at a Gift of the Givers water truck that had just arrived on a street corner near  the Extension 9 hall. “I can’t blame them though, people were just desperate.” Pamela Kaptein at th...