South Africa|Eastern Cape

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King promises to help as extortion hits Mthatha schools

Syndicate closing down businesses and schools

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News | 21 August 2024

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Project to make taxi criminals easier to identify

Sticker campaign launched in Kariega

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Brief | 19 August 2024

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Man suspected of raping a disabled child is at large after police bungle arrest

Mother says Elliot police have failed her

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News | 16 August 2024

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Cost of taxi rank balloons from R5.8-million to more than R20-million

It’s been a long wait for commuters in Tsomo

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Brief | 14 August 2024

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Father unable to register his son because he is not the mother

Despite DNA tests, Home Affairs refused to issue birth certificate to single dad’s son

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News | 14 August 2024

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“Our constitutional rights have been violated” - Eastern Cape community fed up with poor water delivery

Municipality blames water delivery issues on illegal water connections

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Brief | 13 August 2024

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Housing bungle in Eastern Cape

Hundreds of houses stand empty with no roofs

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Brief | 13 August 2024

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Rail theft accused using “Stalingrad tactics”, court hears

Decision on the High Court review brought by Syed Mohiudeen postponed

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News | 12 August 2024

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Eight years and counting - sewage spills into Butterworth river

Municipality blames illegal connections for pump station failure

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News | 12 August 2024

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Quieter seas are good news for African penguins

Numbers of breeding pairs in Algoa Bay have bounced back since bunkering stopped

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News | 12 August 2024

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Multi-million rand Matatiele sports centre still unfinished after six years

But the municipality says the project is on track to being completed

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News | 8 August 2024

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Eastern Cape schools battle low learner numbers and teacher shortages

The education department wants to close some of these schools. But parents say they can’t afford transport fees to other schools.

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News | 8 August 2024

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Kidnapped shop owner found murdered

“We did the negotiations by ourselves because the police made it very clear that there’s nothing they can do to help us.”

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News | 7 August 2024

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SIU starts its probe into street lights tender in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality

Some streets in the metro have been dark for years

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News | 1 August 2024

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Nurses stop work after finding human waste at clinic door

Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall

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Brief | 30 July 2024

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Mpondoland dagga growers left out to dry

Six years after the Constitutional Court judgment, small-scale dagga growers are sliding deeper into poverty while businesses profit in South Africa’s “cowboy” cannabis industry

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Feature | 29 July 2024