Eastern Cape

The D-Max isn’t a luxury ride, but it’s not too tough on the purse and can handle the rough road

The university with its rich history is not only the pride of the Eastern Cape but of the continent. It needs to regain its glorious status in academia and not only be in the news for unfortunate reasons

There has been an effort by the state to expand the TVET college sector. But the reality is that the systems at many of these colleges are simply not working

Pola Maneli’s latest work, ‘An Indigenous I/Eye’, is an attempt to visualise blackness

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

Draft regulations do not allow for commercial cultivation or sale, but policy could change this

‘Thrown away like rubbish’ — Residents of what was once a rich mining town have survived the seven years since the mine closed

Proposed amendments to the legislation mandate meaningful consultation with communities but critics say there are loopholes

Attention has been given to democratic South Africa’s first matric pass rate of more than 80%, but the reality is that schools with a 0% pass rate still exist

The minister has joined a long line of politicians and ministers promising to eradicate bucket toilets and then failing to deliver

The municipality turned a deaf ear to residents’ cries — until they united and took it to court

More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade