Several Eastern Cape mayors have been earning full-time mayors’ salaries ”illegally”, senior local government and housing officials said on Friday.
One of the political prisoners who was granted a controversial special presidential pardon in May has appeared in court on murder and armed robbery charges.
Elliot and Cala in the Eastern Cape were still cut off from the national power grid and road contact with the outside world on Sunday afternoon.
Drama in the trial of three men accused of murdering East London businessman Martin Whitaker continued in the East London Regional Court on Friday when the State withdrew armed robbery and murder charges against the last man still facing the charges.
A human skull found at East London’s Nahoon beach in October could be that of an indigenous woman murdered by a foreign visitor more than two hundred years ago, East London’s district surgeon speculated on Thursday.
Eastern Cape premier and provincial chairman of the African National Congress, Makhenkesi Stofile, has squashed rumours that he plans to retire.
There’s a new hero in the home of John and Peta-Jayne Smith of Gonubie, East London — their pet border collie Lassie who on Friday saved her mistress from the knives of two intruders.
Snow worshippers should refrain from heading outdoors to witness the blanket of snow over northern parts of the Eastern Cape.
Pardoned former Apla cadre Dumisani Ncamazana walked from court a free man in East London on Monday after charges of illegal possession of firearms were dropped.
Eastern Cape Health MEC Bevan Goqwana has pledged to have the parents of boys killed or maimed during circumcisions arrested along with negligent traditional surgeons and nurses.
EAST London police are working around the clock to solve a suspected satanic murder of a 21-year-old man.
Eastern Cape director of public prosecutions Zandile Ntsaluba said on Wednesday he was confident the State had new evidence likely to lead to a conviction in the double murder and robbery case against Dumisani Ncamazana and his brother Simnikiwe.
Former Eastern Cape Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) commissioner Reverend Bongani Finca has come out in support of the presidential pardon granted to 33 prisoners whose were refused amnesty by the TRC.
Eight people were reported missing in East London on Friday as heavy flooding continued to create havoc in the area and Port Elizabeth.
A loaded AK47 rifle was recovered by police in the Alice Spar supermarket owned by Michael Stofile, brother of Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile, East London police said on Monday.
Two girls aged between four and six were still missing in the Eastern Cape on Sunday night.
The Eastern Cape Tourism Board suffered a R3-million loss when seven of its white rhinoceros at the Tsolwana Game Reserve died recently.
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) amnesty committee member Ntsikelelo Sandi said South Africans would do well to shy away from the idea of blanket amnesty as it would nullify the TRC’s reason and purpose.
The East London man who shot and killed his wife and handicapped son last week before turning the gun on himself was cremated at a private service on Wednesday.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said he would attempt to secure the release of the man, who in 1990 with the backing of the apartheid regime, plotted to overthrow Transkei’s military government.
Eastern Cape MEC, Enoch Godongwana, was fined R8 000, or 200 days in jail on Tuesday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The leadership of the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) was confident on Thursday that two days of behind-closed-doors discussions in East London this week would help to refocus the embattled organisation.
POLICE believe that Satanism is linked to the discovery of the body of a man found floating in a swimming pool.