A woman from a rural village got the ball rolling with complaints about a lack of service delivery. The Public Protector investigated and found an entire province in dereliction.
Ten people have been confirmed dead and several are missing after floods caused by torrential rain swept through several towns in the Eastern Cape, destroying billions of rands worth of infrastructure and roads.
When a Nelson Mandela Bay mother finally found help for her starving five-month-old baby, it was almost too late for the infant, who is seriously ill after she was kept alive with cheap cooldrink powder because the family did not have any other food.
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