Apartheid rugby rebel Cheeky Watson’s bid to take control of EP Rugby has sparked a fresh race debate in the province. George Davids told representatives of Eastern Province rugby clubs that EP Rugby ”cannot allow whites to take control of EP Rugby again”.

Two senior officials who have been implicated in corruption by the Jali commission disappeared overnight and were desperately being sought by Jali investigators this week.

Corporate giants Standard Bank and Old Mutual are locked in a R1-million legal battle in the Grahamstown High Court to determine if a Comga shop owner committed suicide or was murdered. The case arises from an incident on February 15 1995 when Tim Kirkup was found dead.

Allegations of foul play by the Jali commission investigating team has seriously tarnished the integrity of the commission, with the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union walking out on proceedings in Port Elizabeth this week.

Donkeys with soft hooves caused Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa to intervene when he learned that his department’s conservation policy prevented communities in the Baviaans Valley conservation area in the Eastern Cape from going to church.

A Democratic Alliance move to label mayor Nceba Faku of the Nelson Mandela metropole the ”worst mayor in South Africa” is backfiring as even sceptical ANC supporters rally behind their party’s man. Faku supporters said that the DA’s clamour to have him removed had mustered support for him.

About 120 people a week are bringing high court claims against Ncumisa Kondlo, the Eastern Cape MEC for Welfare, for failing to pay grants. This week 28 people brought applications against the MEC in the Port Elizabeth High Court, bringing the total to 113 in that court alone.