Strong leaders, getting the basics right and a can-do attitude steer a school to success, a study says
In the Eastern Cape, the fight for ANC president is not decided. Both camps claim to hold majority support.
Certain companies and some government departments oppose a carbon tax, killing off a great environmental project.
Researchers point to the tendency for the civil society organisation space to be treated as though it is free of problems and political tensions.
The woman, whose name is given as Linda Stenekamp, says she sat in the cage after she asked for a lift.
Largely they are disaffected members of the major parties who hope to exercise influence if they win.
A holiday with my grandmother shows me another way of life, one with different ways of being.
It’s no coincidence that the poorest black schools with the worst outcomes are under Sadtu’s dominion.
President Jacob Zuma told the AbaThembu king in April that it had been requested that his certificate of recognition be withdrawn.
George Charamba said the South African government had to make the final decision on whether to invite Mugabe to South Africa’s oldest university.
One out of every ten Grade 1 learners in some parts of the province have been born with the consequences of their mothers’ drinking during pregnancy.
Mtundini Saphepha, a caretaker at a primary school, recounts how he was stuck in excreta when a latrine collapsed.
Patients in the Eastern Cape’s rural areas could wait up to 29 hours for an ambulance, according to an SAHRC report released on Thursday.
Former Port Elizabeth mayor Ben Fihla has been made an additional special adviser to Premier Phumulo Masualle at a salary of almost R1m a year.
Mvula Trust is in the spotlight after giving a R21m sanitation contract to an employee’s husband.
Given the agricultural potential in former homelands and the challenges of communal land policies, this may be the time to review them.
Mlibo Qobosiyane calls on MPLs and MPs to use their positions to support his efforts to protect the livelihoods of those who work on the tea estates.
A political war of words is brewing in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape, over a cup of tea – or the lack thereof.
At least two people were killed by police in the Eastern Cape last night, after an altercation when the cops stopped them stealing goods from a truck.
The basic education department owed R28-million to Eastern Cape teachers, resulting in its assets being attached.
The fraud-busters are to investigate how R250 000 appeared in EC Premier Phumulo Masualle’s bank account around the time of Nelson Mandela’s funeral.
Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.
After a court approved a claim by a group of Xhosa claimants, 17 landowners who lost a land claim bid say they are off to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Despite internal party strife in Nelson Mandela Bay, the ANC crossed the 70% mark in the Eastern Cape, followed by the DA.
The suburb and township of Walmer in Port Elizabeth may share a name, but residents have vastly different life experiences and election hopes.
While some community members in the Northern Areas outside of Port Elizabeth say they will certainly vote ANC, others are saying the party is corrupt.
The M&G visits a rural family for the third time in a decade, only to find that little has changed.
The party is finding that the Eastern Cape does not intend to let bygones be bygones.
Three people have been arrested after a Pondoland initiate who lost his penis and spoke out about it in public was beaten for "shaming the custom".
Port Elizabeth police are on high alert in the Gelvendale area, after three shooting incidents were reported over two days.
Cope chief whip Nkosinathi Kuluta is still in his Eastern Cape legislative seat almost four weeks after defecting to the ANC.
Apartheid-era regionalism is a pervasive and damaging mind-set among our current rulers, writes Rapule Tabane.