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Dangerous: The slippery bridge residents of Santini in Butterworth cross to collect water from a burst pipeline that is also connected to the sewer line. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy
AMATHOLE

Ongoing battle to get clean water in Butterworth

Residents of Butterworth in the Eastern Cape created their own clean water supply – before their municipality dismantled it

  • Khaya Koko
5 min read
ACE MAGASHULE

Defiant Ntutu vows to fight back against ANC suspension

The suspended Amathole regional secretary has nowhere to go after he was suspended after the reinstatement of corruption charges, but vows to continue his fight

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
ANC Eastern Cape chairperson Oscar Mabuyane
AMATHOLE

Eastern Cape regional conferences pit Mabuyane and Madikizela against each other

Party insiders say Ramaphosa is unlikely to feel the pinch as a result of Eastern Cape regional conferences pitting Oscar Mabuyane against Babalo Madikizela

  • Lizeka Tandwa
4 min read
Eastern Cape ANC leaders Babalo Madikizela (left) and Oscar Mabuyane (right).
ALFRED NZO

A Madikizela win against Mabuyane could tilt the scales against Ramaphosa’s camp

Babalo Madikizela is considering standing against Oscar Mabuyane to become chair of the key Eastern Cape ANC region in December

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
The killings of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appear to be linked to tender fraud and corruption. (Paul Botes/M&G)
AMATHOLE

E. Cape MEC orders graft probe after two workers are killed at troubled district municipality

The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption

  • Chris Gilili
5 min read
The Qwaninga River that feeds the Qwaninga treatment plant has been reduced to a trickle, exposing beds of rock and sand where water should have been. (Photos: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AMATHOLE

As rivers run dry, Day Zero strikes Eastern Cape’s villages

Severe drought and a struggling municipality means some people drink from muddy puddles

  • Raeesa Pather
10 min read
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AMATHOLE

ANC’s  ‘chief disrupter’ unbowed

Andile Lungisa fears for his life after the chaotic Eastern Cape party election, but won’t back down

  • Govan Whittles
5 min read