Raw sewer in Makokoba flowing into residents' houses. Image by The Citizen Bulletin

BY VUSINDLU MAPHOSA | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | SEPT 19, 2021

Raw sewer flow is a perennial crisis in Makokoba; even within houses, still, no concrete plan is in place to end it.

As a result of failure to complete their education underage teenage girls resort to domestic work. Image by Marc Bayard

BY AMANDA NCUBE | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | SEPT 19, 2021

A combination of several factors is keeping young teen girls out of school and turning them into maids.

Gold buyers are encouraging artisanal miners to embrace the vaccination programme.

BY NQOBILE BHEBHE | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | SEPT 19, 2021

Gwanda gold buyers are trying to change small scale miners attitudes towards vaccination, and they may have struck gold.

The new tender policy gives local companies an upper hand to get tenders and revive the economy. Image by Newsday

BY LIZWE SEBATHA | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | SEPT 6, 2021

A new policy to reserve jobs and tenders for locals may be what the city needs to resuscitate the economy plagued with dead industry and further decimated by COVID-19.

Health workers say they are yet to receive an official communication to start vaccinating pregnant women. Image by Unsplash

BY AMANDA NCUBE | @The_CBNews | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | SEPT 6, 2021

Despite pronouncements on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women, health workers have been turning many away. With increased restrictions being placed on unvaccinated people, expecting and lactating women are in limbo.